Titled “Foreign Merchant House”, Japanese Edu period artist, Sadahide Utagawa, gave us a historical glimpse into a Western gone Eastern business encounter during the 19th Century transformative era. We’re presented an architecturally European merchant house against a classically Japanese landscape, capturing tough negotiation around the far side table without losing any stylised 1865 charm.

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