Utagawa Yoshitora

英吉利人 [Igirisujin.] = English couple.

[Japan]: n.p., n.d. [1863].

Color woodblock print, approximately 14½” x 10”, of an English couple beneath a running header of Japanese text. Utagawa Toshitora did a number of prints of foreigners. Sometimes, as in this print, above the image, a list of foreign vocabulary is depicted. On the top row are Japanese words, below which appears phonetic approximation of (in this case) the English pronunciation of the word. 

Item #2032

Price: $850.00