A Member of Commodore Perry's Party, Western Woman on a Horse
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Hamill and Barker
Accession Number
1961-105-156
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**A Member of Commodore Perry Party, Western Woman on Horse** *Yoshitora Utagawa (Japanese, active 1850–1870), 1861, Print* *Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Hamill and* This striking woodblock print by Yoshitora Utag captures a Western woman riding horseback, identified as a member of Commodore Perry's expeditionary party. Created in 1861, just eight years after Perry's "Black Ships" arrived in Japan in 1853–1854, the artwork reflects the profound cultural shockwaves of that historic moment. Perry's fleet forced Japan to end over two centuries of national isolation (sakoku), sign...