Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(JAPAN -- PERRY.) Kanto Rokushu Kairiku Onko Taihei Kan. Large woodblock kawaraban map and broadside on 2 sheets of thin mulberry joined. 14x37 inches overall; old folds, excellent condition. Japan, Kaei 7 (1854)
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Rare design depicting Commodore Matthew Perry's return visit to Edo Bay in 1854 to forcefully obtain Japanese agreement to the Treaty of Kanagawa. This convention effectively closed the Shogunate's long-standing isolationist national policies towards the west.