Author: Kawaraban.
Title: [Yoroppa Jin Zu].
Description: n.p. [mid 19th century?]. Woodcut 31x24cm. Rather good. ¶ Europeans - this is a handy guide to the pesky foreigners who were beginning to swarm around Japan like jackals around a small but plump antelope.Kawarabans were illicit illustrated news sheets for the streets and produced by the million for a couple of hundred years so of course few survive. They were produced for anything more interesting than the drop of a hat.

Keywords: kawaraban social history travel c19th Japan Asia progress graphic art illustration race racism