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Tips for Using the Mirador Viewer
  • The panel along the top right of the viewer includes a full screen option Mirador full screen button which is a square with line breaks on to top right bottom and left sides in the middle of each side of the square. This button in the Mirador viewer is labeled as Full screen.to view the object at the full size of your screen.
  • To alter the layout options, click the window views & thumbnail display icon Windows views & thumbnail display button which is a rectangle with a line down the center and a brief space below the icon followed by a horizontal line. This icon in the Mirador viewer is located along the top right corner of the Mirador viewer.
  • To search text within the object you are viewing use the search icon Magnifying glass icon for search of content viewable in the Mirador viewer.
  • To rotate or to alter the contrast of an image click on the Expand Image Tools icon (to the right of the object) Mirador image menu
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  • Haku Rei
Contributors
  • Unknown (Author)
Resource Type
  • Image
    • Identifier
    • Locally defined identifier
      The Melikian Collection L2011.008.026.50
    Note
    • English title: White Pretty Water
    • Dimension: 15 x 22 in.
    • Date: ca. 1910
    • This advertisement juxtaposes famous Japanese courtesan Shizu Tamakai alongside a caricature of an African, most likely to highlight the exotic abilities of this whitening cleanser. Shizu Tamakai was one of the most well known geisha in Japan in the early 1900s, and appears in many photographs, advertisements and posters of the time. However, finding racial caricatures with this level of exaggeration is quite rare.

      Nicholas Klofkorn

      Other information (library catalogue, links to websites etc.):
      A duplicate of this poster was in exhibition in Osaka Prefectural Library. I also found an online “antique” website selling copies of this poster for 7,000 yen.
      http://hakushakukan.ocnk.net/product-list/2?page=6

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