Japan: Amerikajin No Zu ('Portrait of Americans'), woodblock print, Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1861

Japanese print showing an American family, the husband stands nearby while his wife breast-feeds an infant.

Utagawa Yoshitora was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. He was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e).

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