Isiko laseJapane belilokhu likhona ukwazi ukugqugquzela izinkulungwane zabaculi bayo yonke iminyaka ngezindaba zakhe ezinganekwane noma leyo ndlela ekhethekile yokuqonda ukuqonda, okusiholele emisebenzini yobuciko ngabadwebi abaziwayo baseJapan. Cishe lapha sizamile ukuletha ezinye ngezikhathi ezithile.
Indaba ecebile ebonakalayo leyo manje ingalandwa ku-Smithsonian, ekhiphe imibhalo engaphezulu komlando eyi-1.100 XNUMX yaseJapan evela emaqoqweni abaqoqi ababili abakhulu. Unazo zitholakala mahhala kunethiwekhi, ngakho-ke ake sazi okuncane ngazo.
wakhe UCharles Lang Freer noRobert O. Muller, Abaqoqi ukuthi le mibhalo yomlando ebonakalayo ibonwe yidijithali. Owokuqala uyisikhulu sikaloliwe kanti owokugcina ungumthengisi wobuciko. U-Lang waqala iqoqo lakhe lapho ethatha umhlalaphansi emuva ngo-1899, ngenxa yobungani ayenabo nomdwebi uJames McNeil Whistler kanye nesazi sezobuciko esasaziwa ngo-Ernest Fenollosa. Ekuthandeni kwakhe ubuciko base-Asia, wamholela ekubeni anikele ngeqoqo lakhe langasese kuhulumeni.
Muller futhi ulethe ukuthanda kwakhe ubuciko baseJapan ngemuva kokuthola imidwebo ye-woodblock eNew York ngawo-30. Wabe eseqala ukuqoqa iqoqo elikhulu lobuciko baseJapan waze washona ngo-2003. Wanikela ngama-4.000 yaleyo misebenzi, kanye nemibhalo eminingi kuSmithsonian.
Ngenxa yokushisekela kwalamadoda amabili, namuhla singafinyelela ukuthuthukiswa kwezincwadi zaseJapan kusukela ngezikhathi ze-Edo neMeji, ezisuka ku-1600 zaya ku-1912. Imisebenzi engaphezu kuka-1.000 67 eyenziwe ngedijithali evela kwaFree nenye engama-XNUMX evela kungobo yomlando kaMuller isiyonke.
Iwebhu iyatholakala kusuka kulesi sixhumanisi, nawe kuzovumela ukufinyelela kungobo yomlando yomlando ngesimo sezithombe engasetshenziswa ngokukhululeka. Isikhathi esihle sokukhombisa isikibha esihle kakhulu noma isiguqo segumbi lakho lokuphumula ngokusebenzisa amapulatifomu aziwa yibo bonke abanjengo-Etsy.