1861
Englishwoman and a Chinese Man Traveling
Utagawa YoshifujiJapanese, 1828 - 1887
The texts Yokohama prints that include phonetic vocabularies are most often written in Japanese characters. Occasionally attempts at transliterations of foreign words were made using letters of the Roman alphabet, as seen here, where "English person" is spelled "IGIRISWZIN."
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