Two Long Vividly Illustrated Scrolls Providing A Japanese Account Of The Decisive February April

by Perry S Second Expedition To Japan

$65,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

11 long & lavishly painted scenes, employing numerous washes of ink in a variety of colors. Two emaki I: 295 x 6760 mm.; II: 295 x 6800 mm. with wooden rollers & patterned silk-fabric front endpapers. Japan: 1854-55 . Two brilliantly rendered “Black Ship” scrolls representing Commodore Perry’s return to Japan in early 1854; most of the events depicted in this pair of scrolls are rarely pictured in Japanese materials recounting these consequential

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