[A Japanese man smoking from a pipe while wearing two swords, a silk jacket, brocade trousers, cotton stockings, and straw sandals]

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Title: [A Japanese man smoking from a pipe while wearing two swords, a silk jacket, brocade trousers, cotton stockings, and straw sandals]
Date: 1854 March 28
Creator: Dudley, Thomas C., b. ca. 1830.
Notes: [Thomas C. Dudley] AL to [Fanny Dudley], March 28, 1854. U.S.S. Powhatan. Flag ship. Yokohama, Jeddo Bay, [Japan], page 1. From a collection of 83 letters written by Dudley to his young sister, Fanny, during the Caribbean cruises of the U.S.S. Powhatan in 1852 and Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan, 1853-1854, and a 219 page memoir of his experiences during the United States Navel Expedition to Japan, written in 1855.
Names and Subjects: Brocade--Japan.; Coats.; Emblems--1850-1860.; Emblems-Japan.; Ethnic costume--Japan.; Fashion--Japan--History.; Hairstyles--Japan--History--Pictorial works.; Jackets.; Japan--1800-1890.; Japan--Civilization--1850-1904.; Japan--Description and travel--Pictorial works.; Japan--History--19th century--Pictorial works.; Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Pictorial works.; Manners and customs--Japan.; Men.; Silk--1850-1860.; Sketches--1850-1860.; Smoking--Japan--1850-1860.; Swords--Japan--1840-1860.; Thongs (Sandals); Tobacco pipes--1850-1860.; Velvet.; Manuscripts shelf.
Genre: Drawings (visual works); Letters (correspondence); Pen and wash drawings.; Watercolors (paintings)
Collection Title: Thomas C. Dudley papers
Collection Creator: Dudley, Thomas C., b. ca. 1830.
Project Name: Illustrated Manuscripts Project
ID: 4695
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-04-10 14:38:00

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Image Size: 4768 x 5786
File Size: 1 MB
Record: 4695
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