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True depiction of a trading house in Yokohama
Yokohama shôkan shinzu
1861
36 x 24 cm.
Artist: Gountei Sadahide
Publisher: Maruya Tokubei, Yokohama
Inv.nr.: NEHA SC 477 nr. 33a
Slide: BG K9/453
This is the right section of a triptych, of which only two parts are in this collection. The Western women are playing a kind of badminton with the Japanese lady on the previous print. The text is a phonetic list of Japanese, Dutch and English words.
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Text:
wo-o-n : one
e-e-n : een
tsu-u : two
te-wu-e-e : twee
su-ri-i : three
do-ri-i : drie
(f)o-(w)o : four
Hi-i-ru : vier
fu-a-i-fu : five
he-e-fu : vijf
shi-ki-su : six
se-zu : zes
se-fe-n : seven
se-e-fe-n : zeven
e-e-to : eight
a-ku-to : acht
na-i-n : nine
... and so on