Prints, Drawings, and Photographs A Frenchwoman and a
DutchmanMade in Japan, Asia Edo Period (1615-1868), Yokohama
school, 1860 Ochiai Yoshiiku, Japanese, 1833 - 1904. Published
by Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Kinkyū). Engraved by Katada Chōjirō, Buneidō.
Currently not on view |Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund
and with funds contributed by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert A. Hauslohner, Dr. Emanuel Wolff, the Derald and Janet
Ruttenberg Foundation, Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr., and David P.
Willis, 1968| LabelA number of Yokohama prints include phonetic
vocabularies intended to aid in the translation of the languages
of the Westerners with whom the Japanese interacted. The text in
the box at the top of this print offers Japanese
transliterations of Dutch words related to meteorology and
geography.