Treaty of Ganghwa print

Interesting Japanese print of the 1876 Treaty of Ganghwa.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on June 4, 2007 at 4:45 pm, filed under Asides, East and Central Asia, Japan, Korean History. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

6 Comments

  1. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 12:39 am | Permalink

    Which eventually led to this…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.....n_of_Korea

  2. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 12:41 am | Permalink

    Oh, and the print looks like something from a modern comic book.

  3. lirelou your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    Someguy, saw a program on the discovery channel a few years ago that traced the development of modern comics and graphic novels to the reception of Japanese woodprints in the West. So, the print’s “modern comic book” look and feel may be more than serendipitous.

  4. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    That’s what I suspected. Thanks for the info.

  5. sewing your flag
    Posted June 7, 2007 at 2:27 am | Permalink

    Check out Toulouse-Lautrec’s work, too. In fact, my local art gallery had his stuff side-by-side with some ukiyo-e prints, and the similarity was unmistakable.

  6. lirelou your flag
    Posted June 7, 2007 at 8:38 am | Permalink

    Could not find the Discovery link, but “Japonism” will bring up a wiki page that contains a lot of what I saw on the Discovery program regarding influence on 19th Century artists.

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