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Artifacts of diplomacy : Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) / Chang-su Houchins.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Houchins, Chang-su, author.
- Series:
- Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37.
- Smithsonian contributions to anthropology ; no. 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858--Ethnological collections--Catalogs.
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)--Catalogs.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan.
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology--Ethnological collections--Catalogs.
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.).
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology.
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854).
- Ethnological museums and collections--Washington (D.C.)--Catalogs.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Material culture--Japan--Catalogs.
- Material culture.
- Japan--Antiquities--Catalogs.
- Japan.
- Anthropology--Private collections.
- Antiquities.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Government publications -- United States.
- Online resources.
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Lacquerware
- Textiles and paper
- Ceramics
- Fans, umbrellas, and tobacco pipes
- Graphics
- Bamboo, wood, straw, and fiber products
- Metalware
- Swords and arms
- Tools.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155).
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (SI viewed November 7, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Houchins, Chang-su. Artifacts of diplomacy.
- ISBN:
- 1560985380
- 9781560985389
- OCLC:
- 624312202
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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