Woodblock Prints: Documenting the Meiji Period 1868-1912

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Woodblock Prints Documenting the Meiji
Period 1868-1912

• From MITs Visualizing Cultures Online Exhibit

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Civilization and EnlightenmentBunmei Kaika

• Westernization of Japan

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Complete Picture of a Steamship Scenery of
Uraga from the Sea by Sadahide 1863
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Steam Train between Tokyo and Yokohama by
Utagawa Hiroshige III 1875
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Shimbashi Station by Utagawa Hiroshige III 1874
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Illustration of the Foreign Buildings Along the
Kaigandori Viewed from the Yokohama Wharves by
Utagawa Hiroshige III 1870
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Album of Ten Prints Illustrating Sericulture
Unwinding Strands from Cocoons by Means of a
Silk Reeling Machine by Toyohara Chikanobu 1880
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Maple Leaves at New Palace (Artist
Unknown) 1888
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Illustration of the Imperial Diet of Japan by
Goto Yoshikage 1890
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Goodbye AsiaDatsu-A Ron

• Throwing Off Its Neighbors China and Korea

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Story from the Sino-French War by Utagawa
Kunisada III 1884
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Illustration of Grand Festival at Yasukuni
Shrine by Shinohara Kiyooki 1895
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Illustration of Military Review by Toyohara
Chikanobu 1887
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True Portrait of His Majesty by Edoardo
Chiossone 1889
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Minister Otori Escorting the Korean Regent as
They Enter the Palace at Keijo by Toyohara
Chikanobu 1894
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Sino-Japanese War The Fierce Battle on the
Floating Bridge at Jiuliancheng by Kobayashi
Toshimitsu 1894
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Captain Awata by Mizuno Toshikata 1895
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Picture of Captain Awata, Who Fights Furiously
with His Celebrated Sword on the Assault on
Magongcheng in the Pescadores by Migita
Toshihide 1895