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Author Houchins, Chang-su, author.

Title Artifacts of diplomacy : Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) / Chang-su Houchins.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  SI 1.33:37    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37
Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37.
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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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.
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) -- Catalogs.
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
National Museum of Natural History (États-Unis). Department of Anthropology -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858. (OCoLC)fst00002570
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01836939
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) (OCoLC)fst01410007
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, (1794-1858) -- Collections ethnologiques -- Catalogues.
National Museum of Natural history (U.S.). Department of Anthropology -- Collections ethnographiques -- Catalogues.
Ethnological museums and collections -- Washington (D.C.) -- Catalogs.
Material culture -- Japan -- Catalogs.
Japan -- Antiquities -- Catalogs.
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) -- Catalogues.
Anthropology -- Private collections. (OCoLC)fst01351682
Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
Ethnological museums and collections. (OCoLC)fst00916097
Material culture. (OCoLC)fst01011739
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Washington (D.C.) (OCoLC)fst01204505
Smithsonian Institute.
Japon -- Antiquités -- Catalogues.
Indexed Term Art
Japanese art
Museums
Genre/Form Catalog
Online resources.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
Catalogs.
Catalogues.
Government publications -- United States.
Added Author Smithsonian Institution. Press, publisher.
Added Title Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854)
ISBN 1560985380 (paperback)
9781560985389 (paperback)
Gpo Item No. 0921-A (online)
Sudoc No. SI 1.33:37

 
    
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