'Japanese Village' Exhibition in Hyde Park
'Japanese Village' Exhibition in Hyde Park
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Record No
323512
Title
'Japanese Village' Exhibition in Hyde Park
Description
Advertisement for Tannaker Buhicrosan’s ‘Japanese Village’ in Hyde Park. A feminine figure is depicted wearing a form of Japanese traditional dress, including an obi and kimono and hiyori geta shoes.

Buhicrosan’s ‘Japanese Village’ was a commercial exhibition of Japanese culture located in Humphreys' Hall, Knightsbridge. It took place from January 1885 until June 1887. The exhibition employed around 100 Japanese men and women in a setting built to resemble a traditional Japanese village. As a result of the opening up of Japan to trade with Britain in the 1850s, an English craze for all things Japanese had built through the 1860s and 1870s, fed by the colonial British perception of Japan as a medieval culture. Over a million people visited it. This was just one of the ways in which Dutch-born Buhicrosan, christened Frederik Blekman, exploited Japan and its culture for his own gain.
Date of execution
1886
Section
The London Archives
Collection
Entertainments Scrapbook
Notes
From the Entertainments Scrapbook. This collection was wrongly identified previously as part of the Granger Collection.
Catalogue No
SC_GL_ENT_101d
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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