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Image is 11 x 16” on a 14½x18½” backing board with glue remnants along the sides from a now-missing mat.

Possibly by 19th century Japanese artist due to style.

The few ideographs on the painting may be either Japanese or Chinese. The only clear translation of three of the characters is the title, “landing of America/Americans”.  The artist was probably Japanese, as the character used for “America” was more common to Japan than China, originating in the 1860s. It’s possible the event depicted also took place in Japan. One of the other characters seems to refer to a Japanese place-name (“Ogura”), but there is no historical record of an American military landing at that place, either during the Perry expedition of the 1850s or later. Perhaps it was the residence of the artist. But this is only historical speculation and we can offer no definitive identification of what is, nonetheless, an intriguing image.