triptych print
- Museum number
- 2011,3044.2
- Title
- Object: Naichi zakkyo: Mirai no Ponchi-e 内地雑居: 未来のポンチ絵 (Mixed Residence in the Interior: Punch Pictures of the Future)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print triptych. Satirical depiction of foreigners resident in Japan.
- Production date
- February 1899
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.30 centimetres (centre sheet)
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Height: 37.50 centimetres (left sheet)
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Height: 37.40 centimetres (right sheet)
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Width: 24.70 centimetres (centre sheet)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (left sheet)
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Width: 25.10 centimetres (right sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print comments sardonically on the ending in 1899 of the special extraterritorial rights of foreigners living in Japan and their new rights to live, travel and trade anywhere within Japan (naichi zakkyo, ‘mixed residence in the interior’) – something fiercely opposed by Japanese nationalists. Foreigners are depicted in all kinds of bizarre costumes, in the style of ‘Punch pictures’ (comic pictures in the tradition of Mr. Punch). This term is a late nineteenth-century precursor for the modern term ‘manga’ and so the print has additional interest as charting the development of this important genre. At present nothing is known concerning the artist ‘Chitose’. The seal, presumed to be a family name, reads ‘Nakashima [Nakajima]’ 奈加志満. The print is listed in vol. 3 of Ukiyo-e daihyakka jiten, 1982, p. 141, list no. 553, entry for the publisher Hasegawa Sumi. (T. Clark, 11/2011)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 Feb – Jun, BM Japanese Galleries ‘Japan from Prehistory to Present’
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2011,3044.2
