Rosen's anecdote

At that time, Takeshiro Matsuura of Shimoda Institute in Japan recorded the shooting activities of these two Chinese and American photographers in his diary. He wrote: "On March 27, starting today, the US military began to shoot with a camera in Shimoda Shore. The photographer is Long Fu and the mirror grinding officer is A Qing. " The diary also describes that Brown swaggered into Dianji with a strange machine like magic. The "small official of Qing Dynasty" mentioned in Matsuura Takeshiro's diary is Rosen, a photographer in China. At that time, there was a portrait of Rosen in the map of Millikan, which was painted by the famous Japanese painter Aiko Shovel. This portrait was later made into a bronze plate by the famous Japanese photographer Ishikawa. Rosen returned to Hong Kong on August 7th, 1854. His interview with the American fleet was published in the Hong Kong Chinese monthly "Far and Near" as a diary. According to his diary, he stayed in Shimoda for a month and visited and filmed in Da 'anji many times. At that time, Japan was a feudal monarchy, and its technology was still very backward, even worse than that of China. People know almost nothing about photography. Rosen wrote that one of the gifts given to Japan by the United States is a "Japanese image" (that is, a camera) because "Japan looks like it is paved against the sun, and the painting is imaged, which does not need to be described with a pen and lasts for a long time. When local officials and people saw it, they were "surprised by the number of people." In addition, when he was in the Japan Pavilion, he recalled: "There are mountains to protect the country, and there are temples, painted buildings and carved beams on the mountains. The prefect sent people here to paint the image of the sun and give it to the officials. "..." ... this kind of written record is a rare note of early photographers' travel photos today.