Kura-Kawa-Kakei
Publisher
Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr.
(1816 - 1886)
Publisher
Sarony and Co., Photographers, New York, NY
(American)
CultureAmerican
Date1856
MediumLithograph
Dimensions8 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.6 × 13.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 19 5/8 × 15 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (49.8 × 39.7 × 4.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 19 5/8 × 15 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (49.8 × 39.7 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum collection
Object number53.11.11
On View
Not on viewLabel TextW. T. Lithography of Sarony and Co. American, New York After Eliphalt M. Brown, Jr. American, 1816-1886 Kura-Kawa-Kakei, 1856 Published in the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan by Admiral Matthew Calbraith Perry Lithograph (print) Eliphalet E. Brown was Perry's expedition photographer. During their mission he made more than 400 daguerreotypes, almost none of which survive today. Many were reproduced, however, as prints in Perry's report to Congress, and showed scenes of daily life, and events during the expedition. There were several formal group portraits like this one of the prefect of Shimoda and his retainers. The images in Perry's widely published report are fascinating to compare to those of Osuke and others in Japan. Brown's photos offered a very rare glimpse of late Tokugawa court culture in Japan's final moments of self-imposed exile and the final years of the shôgunate. Chrysler Museum of Art 53.11.11Exhibition History"Inspiring Impressionism: Japanese Prints in the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, March 10 - June 18, 2017.
