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True depiction of a trading house in Yokohama
Yokohama shôkan shinzu
1861
36 x 24 cm.
Artist: Gountei Sadahide
Publisher: Maruya Tokubei, Yokohama
Inv.nr.: NEHA SC 477 nr. 33b
Slide: BG K9/452
This is the middle section of a triptych, of which only two parts are in this collection. The Japanese lady is playing a kind of badminton with the Western women on the next print. The text is a phonetic list of Japanese, Dutch and English words.
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Text:
he-fu-n-ri : heavenly
he-e-me-ru-su : hemels
e-ru-su-ri : earthly
a-a-ru-zu : aards
so-n : sun
ta-fu : dag
mu-u-n : moon
ma-a-n : maan
u-i-n-do : wind
u-i-n-do : wind
re-e-n : rain
re-e-ge-n : regen
hi-ru : hill
be-ru-gu : berg
shi-i : sea
se-e : zee