Japanese women, Simoda.

Creator

Date Created

1856

Identifier

Hocken Collections Bliss: Oversize - KWV P
s38

Publisher

Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer.

Description

From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were allowed to land a ship every yEar In July 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry, with a squadron of four ships-of-war entered Uraga Bay, just south of Yokohama. He returned the next year and a treaty was signed to allow the opening of Shimoda (south of Numazu and Mishima) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido) to ships seeking provisions. This contact represented the 'opening' of Japan (Dai Nippon) to the modern world.

Contributor

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858

Format

Planographic prints
Lithographs

Medium

Daguerreotype

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

Provenance

Thomas Morland Hocken.

Source

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commmodore M.C. Perry, United States navy / by order of the government of the United States (Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer, 1856), v.1, 418.

Is Part Of

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commmodore M.C. Perry, United States navy.

Genre

Portraits

Files

s38.jpg

Collection

Citation

Brown, E., “Japanese women, Simoda.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 25, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/index.php/items/show/6042.