Kung-Kwa at On-Na Lew Chew
$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A quietly revealing image from Heine's Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition: the American encounter with the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, where diplomacy, observation, and coastal movement preceded the better-known landings in Japan. This plate is one of the more understated images in Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition, and that restraint is part of its appeal. Lew Chew was the period Western name for the Ryukyu Islands, and On-Na corresponds to Onna, on Okinawa. The scene
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