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Japan: Amerikajin - Bango Wakai ('Americans - Japanese Translations of Barbaric Languages'), woodblock print , Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1863

Japan: <i>Amerikajin - Bango Wakai</i> ('Americans - Japanese Translations of Barbaric Languages'), woodblock print , Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1863

Japanese woodblock print showing an American couple conversing; their conversation is translated into Japanese.

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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