-From the ICU Library Collection
1856
This is an excerpt from an article titled “The United States Expedition to Japan” in the Illustrated London News. Women in kimono have been copied from the illustration of a mother and daughter in Shimoda, featured in the first volume of Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan by Perry. The first volume of this book contains many lithographs of places Perry visited, including Ryūkyū, Uraga, Yokohama, and Shimoda. Illustrations in the Illustrated London News were wood engravings which allowed detailed expression.