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 America: A Steam Boat in Motion Utagawa Yoshikazu

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Woodblock print. Arrival of Commodore Perry’s black ship off the coast of Uraga, with smaller boats greeting it. Inscribed.

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Catalogue Raisonné Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #28; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #10, photo p. 50; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #26; Tanba, Nishiki-e ni miru Meiji tennô to Meiji jidai (1966), #149

Provenance Purchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)

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Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of a Torpedo Explosion Seen from Azuma Bridge (Tôkyô meisho Azuma-bashi yori suirai no enbô no zu)

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Catalogue Raisonné Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #28; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #10, photo p. 50; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #26; Tanba, Nishiki-e ni miru Meiji tennô to Meiji jidai (1966), #149 Provenance Purchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S.

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Nobility Enjoying the Cooling Air on a Summer Evening (Kôki nôryô no zu)

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True View of Prosperity: Roundtrip River Steamship Service of the Ryôgoku Transportation Company (Tôkyô Ryôgoku tsûun kaisha kawa jôki ôfuku sei’ei shinkei no zu)

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「東京两國通運會社川蒸滊往復盛栄真景之圖」

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Illustration of the Steam Train Railroad between Tokyo and Yokohama (Tôkyô Yokohama jôkisha tetsudô no zu)

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Famous Places in Tokyo: True View of the Post Office at Edobashi (Tôkyô meisho Edobashi yûbinkyoku shinkei)

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Splendors of Great Tokyo: “Modern” Culture that Embellished the City （Edo-Tokyo Museum）

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Held at Edo-Tokyo Museum. In recent years, redevelopment is underway all over Tokyo and the city’s urban landscape continues t

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“Shimbashi Station” by Hiroshige III, 1874

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“Shimbashi Station” by Hiroshige III, 1874 [Y0185] Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Illustration of the Silk Reeling Machine at the Japanese National Industrial Exposition (Dai Nihon naikoku kangyô hakurankai seishi kikai no zu)

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Hiroshige III, The Fine Arts Museum and the Shojo Fountain at the Second National Industrial Exposition in Ueno Park

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Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894) The Fine Arts Museum and the Shojo Fountain at the Second National Industrial Exposition in Ueno Park , 1881. Oban Triptych. This strange and luminous image is one of the well known examples illustrating the end product of the great Meiji revolution. It shows the spirit of optimism and investment that irredeemably changed Japan from an inward looking nation into the great industrial and military machine of the twentieth century. The print shows the

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Silk machine is new

Audience faces are stunned

Cheaper clothes for all!

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The train chugs along,

A new world ahead of us,

Old Japan behind

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Steam train plows through town

Rolls through holding large amounts

As folks gaze at it

-Carter

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The ship is coming

Be sure to greet with respect

Can't afford a war

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Japan progressing

With machines for silk reeling

Shocking everyone

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"Everything is new,

Telephone wires, stone walls,

New mixed with blossoms"

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Wheels found all around

Folks waiting for the steamboat

Bridges being built

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Copying Europe

With long telegraph wires

And locomotives

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Many soft silk reeling

As each woman working hard

Stunning everyone

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Tokyo's grand bridge

A brand new way to travel

We conquered the ocean

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The passing trains roar

The bustling streets of Japan

With National pride

Garrett Mock

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What do we do now?

Can't have the same fate as China

We must maintain peace

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They have blue bridges

blue bridges and cars go far

their innovative

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wearing new dresses

we match the westerners

while staying ourselves

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A strong U.S boat

Shows itself in the darkness

With a cloud of smoke

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Steel bridge spans the waves,

Suits and silk watch flames arise,

East greets West with fire.

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trains go by choo choo

Big plans ahead are coming

Lets forget the old

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steam engine busting

the trains steam fill the town

people moved on and off

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West's power observed,
Japan learns, builds, and ascends,
A rising new sun.

- Mariana Bowen