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1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37 |
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Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155). |
Summary |
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854), the most important voyage of mid-nineteenth-century American "gunboat diplomacy," resulted in the opening of Japan to Western commerce. This study documents for the first time the expedition's "artifacts of diplomacy," an important collection representing traditional or preindustrial Japanese material culture. Chang-su Houchins describes the range of silk textiles, lacquerware, ceramics, fans and umbrellas, bamboo and wood products, and swords and arms presented to the United States government, President Franklin Pierce, and Commodore Perry. Japanese government commissioners and officials of the Kingdom of Ryukyu gave more than one hundred gifts before and after the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. The monograph also surveys objects the expedition party purchased at bazaars in Hakodate and Shimoda specifically to deposit it in a national museum in Washington, D.C. Drawing on English and Japanese published and archival sources, Artifacts of Diplomacy extensively documents each artifact and presents the context of cultural contacts from both the Japanese and the American points of view. |
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Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Note |
Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (SI viewed November 7, 2018). |
Contents |
Lacquerware -- Textiles and paper -- Ceramics -- Fans, umbrellas, and tobacco pipes -- Graphics -- Bamboo, wood, straw, and fiber products -- Metalware -- Swords and arms -- Tools. |
Subject |
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.
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United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) -- Catalogs.
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.
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Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
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National Museum of Natural History (États-Unis). Department of Anthropology -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
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Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858. (OCoLC)fst00002570
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01836939
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United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) (OCoLC)fst01410007
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Perry, Matthew Calbraith, (1794-1858) -- Collections ethnologiques -- Catalogues.
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National Museum of Natural history (U.S.). Department of Anthropology -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
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Ethnological museums and collections -- Washington (D.C.) -- Catalogs.
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Material culture -- Japan -- Catalogs.
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Japan -- Antiquities -- Catalogs.
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United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) -- Catalogues.
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Anthropology -- Private collections.
(OCoLC)fst01351682
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Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
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Ethnological museums and collections. (OCoLC)fst00916097
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Material culture. (OCoLC)fst01011739
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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Washington (D.C.) (OCoLC)fst01204505
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Smithsonian Institute.
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Japon -- Antiquités -- Catalogues.
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Indexed Term |
Art |
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Japanese art |
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Museums |
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Catalog |
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Online resources.
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catalogs (documents)
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Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
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Catalogs.
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Catalogues.
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Government publications -- United States.
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Added Author |
Smithsonian Institution. Press, publisher.
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Added Title |
Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) |
ISBN |
1560985380 (paperback) |
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9781560985389 (paperback) |
Gpo Item No. |
0921-A (online) |
Sudoc No. |
SI 1.33:37 |