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Original landscape painting of Hakone, inscribed and dated "Hakone Mountain, Japan 1867" on the rear stretcher by Eugene Miller Van Reed, the Dutch-American merchant and diplomat active in Yokohama. Van Reed arrived in Japan in 1859, shortly after the opening of Yokohama to foreign trade, and worked at the American Consulate at Kanagawa before entering the service of Augustine Heard & Co. Murphy characteries his career in Japan as one of "short-term profit, speculation and adventurism", a pattern reflected in his negotiations with Satsuma over ships, arms, and commercial arrangements, and in the emigration scheme that led to the first organized movement of Japanese labourers to Hawai'i in 1868. His prominence in Yokohama was marked by Utagawa Sadahide's 1861 woodblock portrait of him on horseback. The inscription suggests that Van Reed owned the painting; the artist remains unidentified, and may be Van Reed himself. Hakone was a natural inland subject for a Yokohama resident, lying within reach of the treaty-port community and positioned on the historic T kaid road between Edo and Kyoto. It was also the site of the Hakone Barrier, a Tokugawa security checkpoint controlling movement along the highway. Rutherford Alcock described Hakone scenery in The Capital of the Tycoon in 1863, while Felice Beato photographed the region in the later 1860s. Dated 1867, this view belongs to the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, when Van Reed was moving between diplomacy, private trade, and the Japan-Hawai'i labour scheme. Kevin C. Murphy, The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth-Century Japan, 2004. Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan, 1863, vol. 1. Oil on canvas. Canvas size 310 x 235 mm. Contemporary gilt wooden frame (framed size 365 x 286 mm), canvas on wooden stretchers, nail and hanging cord. Minor loss of paint to right hand side, frame showing signs of age: a very good survival.…