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1862

Setting Sail from a Port in California in America

Utagawa Sadahide

Japanese, c. 1807 - 1873

An imaginary rather than topographical view of the California coast, this print indicates Japan's awareness of what was at the time America's westernmost state; the first Japanese embassy to the United States landed at San Francisco in March of 1860.

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