![[Illustration of Foreign Attendants] [lkoku-jin zuishin no zu]](/map/small/55556.jpg)
Woodblock kawraban sheet showing two foreigners, who it seems probable are American sailors, holding an artillery gun and a spear respectively. The names appearing in the text which surrounds the two figures and the coastal scene on the left are the...
![[Illustration of a Foreign Ship] [lkokusen no zu]](/map/small/55557.jpg)
Popular Japanese Conception of Foreign Naval Power after Commodore Perry's Arrival in Japan. Woodcut kawaraban showing a foreign steamship. This print graphically suggests the power of modern western technology to the very concerned Japanese public....
![(Commodore Perry) [Names of Japanese Sumo Wrestlers.] [Nihon rikishi namae]](/map/small/55567.jpg)
Woodblock kawaraban showing Japanese sumo wrestlers carrying straw rice-bags (one bag weighs about 60 kg) to the American ship. At the second visit by Commodore Perry in 1854 the Edo government gave Perry 200 bags of rice. On this occasion, the Edo...
