Contemporary Japanese Rendition Of The Signing Of The Treaty At Kanagawa

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N.p., n.d. Japan: 1854 or after . Pictorial record of US Commodore Matthew Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854, and the signing of the famous treaty at Kanagawa. Approx. 41 x 34½ , watercolor and ink on paper; old folds, several insignificant breaks at the creases; some show-through from a large Japanese character on the verso; otherwise in very good condition. A contemporary rendering of the signing of the treaty, showing Perry's nine black ships in the harbor Perry's flagship the

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