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    Default 40 Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865

    Red-Haired Barbarians

    The Dutch and other foreigners
    in Nagasaki and Yokohama
    1800 - 1865
    40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection


    From the 1630s to the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan was practically closed to foreigners. The only Westerners allowed to stay in Japan and engage in trade were the Dutch. They had to submit to very strict regulations, however, and were only allowed to live on Deshima, a small artificial island in Nagasaki harbor.

    This is a digital exhibition of a collection of 40 Japanese woodblock prints published between 1800 and 1865, depicting Dutch traders in Nagasaki. Now extremely rare, at the time of their publication the prints were sold as souvenirs to Japanese who visited Nagasaki and perhaps hoped to catch a glimpse of these strange 'red-haired barbarians'.

    These prints are documents of a unique episode in Dutch trading history, and represent an early period in the art of the Japanese woodcut. Above all the prints show the amazement with which the Japanese looked at Westerners. The Dutch are depicted as pale, ugly, red-haired barbarians with large noses. The ships the Dutch used and the exotic animals they brought caused much astonishment and admiration.

    In 1804, a Russian envoy visited Nagasaki in an attempt to obtain trading rights. He failed, but was portrayed in prints. It was only in 1858 that the Russians, Americans, French, and English were granted the same rights as the Dutch. They settled in Yokohama, a fishing village close to Tokyo. Prints were also created of this settlement, some examples are shown.

    A few prints in the collection of 40 have other subjects. These are also shown here. For further information, some books and links are suggested.
    http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/japaneseprints/


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    Russians:






    Foreigners in Yokohama:

    Dutchman and French woman




    Dutchman, Englishman and American woman




    Dutch

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    Ugly, red-haired barbarian with a large nose... It isn't a slur against the Dutch, or any westerner. There are ugly, large-nosed, red-furred (sometimes red-skinned) creatures in the Japanese mythos, like the oni (ogres) or tengu (goblins).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(folklore)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu

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    Well, the Japanese, Chinese, etc., are as a rule very pug-nosed, so one of the traits that called more the attention to them was the larger noses of the Westerners. Imagine that you were Japanese and one of the few Europeans you have meet was Gérard Depardieu
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