Under Eagle Eyes: Lithographs, Drawings & Photographs from the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860-61 - Hardcover
150 years ago the Prussian East Asian Expedition arrived in Japan with the task of
establishing diplomatic relations between the East Asian island nation on one side
and the member states of the German Customs Union (Zollverein) on the other.
The objective of the mission was primarly political, and depended for its successful
completion on the display of Prussian military strength. At the same time, however,
the mission also constituted one of the best equipped scientific expeditions
at that time. A significant number of artists, photographers and scientists took
part, and left to posterity a rich legacy of visual documentation, much of which
either remains little known today, or was even believed to have been lost.
In this publication, the iconography created by the members of the Eulenburg Mission
is reproduced, supplemented with notes and contextualization. These visual
resources consist of lithographs by one of the official artists, Albert Berg; works by
Berg's counterpart, Wilhelm Heine; photographs taken by the official photographer
Carl Bismarck, his assistant and subsequent collaborator August Sachtler and
the American photographer, John Wilson, who was temporarily employed by
Eulenburg in Edo, as well as contemporary reproductions of these images from
Germany's first illustrated magazine, the Leipzig-based "Illustrirte Zeitung".
establishing diplomatic relations between the East Asian island nation on one side
and the member states of the German Customs Union (Zollverein) on the other.
The objective of the mission was primarly political, and depended for its successful
completion on the display of Prussian military strength. At the same time, however,
the mission also constituted one of the best equipped scientific expeditions
at that time. A significant number of artists, photographers and scientists took
part, and left to posterity a rich legacy of visual documentation, much of which
either remains little known today, or was even believed to have been lost.
In this publication, the iconography created by the members of the Eulenburg Mission
is reproduced, supplemented with notes and contextualization. These visual
resources consist of lithographs by one of the official artists, Albert Berg; works by
Berg's counterpart, Wilhelm Heine; photographs taken by the official photographer
Carl Bismarck, his assistant and subsequent collaborator August Sachtler and
the American photographer, John Wilson, who was temporarily employed by
Eulenburg in Edo, as well as contemporary reproductions of these images from
Germany's first illustrated magazine, the Leipzig-based "Illustrirte Zeitung".
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Review:
"Under Eagle Eyes," edited by Sebastian Dobson and Sven Saaler with contributions by a number of scholars, will be of most interest to readers with an active interest in the history of this period, but the large graphic content -190 illustrations, almost all of which are in color -- makes it accessible to a wider readership who may find it interesting to see how Japan looked at the time, at least to foreign eyes. --The Japan Times Online, January 1, 2012
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- PublisherIUDICIUM Verlag GmbH
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3862051358
- ISBN 13 9783862051359
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages392
- EditorDobson Sebastian, Saaler Sven, OAG - Tokyo
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