21 Feb 2003

Red-Haired Barbarians: 40 Rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865
International Institute of Social History (IISG), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Supplied note: "Red-Haired Barbarians: 40 Rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865. This is a digital exhibition of a collection of 40 Japanese woodblock prints [from the collection of the Netherlands Economic History Archive (NEHA), which is housed in the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. - ed.] published between 1800 and 1865, depicting Dutch traders in Nagasaki. Now extremely rare, at the time of their publication the prints were sold as souvenirs to Japanese who visited Nagasaki and perhaps hoped to catch a glimpse of these strange 'red-haired barbarians' - mvh."
Site contents: Introduction; The Dutch; Dutch Ships; Animals for the Court; Russians; Foreigners in Yokohama; Other Prints; Books and Links.
[A bi-lingual (EN, NL) site - ed.]
URL http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/japaneseprints/index.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: Marien van der Heijden (mvh[use"@"]iisg.nl), forwarded by h-asia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
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