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(1789-03-22)22 March 1789 30 September 1846(1846-09-30) (aged 57) Molley Verney

Molley Verney
Born	(1675-01-01)1 January 1675
Died	1 February 1696(1696-02-01) (aged 21) Kingdom of England
Occupation	Genteel Lady
Known for	Having the first recorded instance of using Japan as a verb in 1683
Spouse	Mr.Kelyng

Mary Verney (1675 - February 1696) known also as Molly, & Mall Klenyg was a British noblewoman most known for having having the first instance of recorded use of the word Japan as a verb in 1683.

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Japanese Art Influence in the United Kingdom

"Anglo-Japanese" redirects here. For other uses, see Anglo-Japanese (disambiguation).

Japanese Art in the United Kingdom

Dresser Teapot (1879) inspired by watching Japanese Tea Cermenony in 1877
Years active	1620s–present
Location	United Kingdom, United States
Major figures	Christopher Dresser,Edward William Godwin
Influences	Arts & Crafts Aestheticism Yokohama Shashin Ukiyo-e
Influenced	Arts and Craft movement in the United States

The influence of Japanese Art has developed in the United Kingdom since the 17th century.

1640 - 1860

When the VOC stopped operating as a company, they did not stop operating within Dejima, and so their trade monopoly with the Japanese continued during the 18th and early 19th century. In 1839, it was reported that a number of Bantam Works were being sold.

Japanese Artists in the United Kingdom

For example; in 1900, Sadajirō Yamanaka open his London Branch of Yamanaka and Co. By 1902, a Japanese exhibition opened in Whitechapel, London, in which Charles Lewis Hind reviewed the watercolours of the Japanese artist working in London Yoshio Markino. Markino would go on to become a successful illustrator in Edwardian Britain, publishing illustrated works such as The Colour of London(1907) and A Japanese Artist in London(1910). The writer Douglas Sladen also frequently collaborated with Markino in his publications. Between 1907 and 1910, Wakana Utagawa visits London to train in watercolour painting and showcase her traditional Japanese brush paintings.

Portrait of the Artist Henry by Hara Busho (1907)

In 1911 Frank Brangwyn had begun to collaborate with various Japanese artists such as Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama working in Edwardian England on woodblock printing techniques. Then in 1915, the Yamanaka gallery in London hosted the British Red Cross Loan Exhibition. These businessmen, taking advantage of improved international relations, set up shop in Europe and America. Dealers such as Tonying, C. T. Loo (q.v.) and Yamanaka all began to sell East Asian objects directly to Western collectors.

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Artist	Years active in UK Beginning	Years active in UK End
Busho Hara	1907	1912
Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama	1911	1947
Ishibashi Kazunori	1903	1924
Urushibara Mokuchu	1908	1940
Kamisaka Sekka	1901	1908
Yoshio Markino	1897	1942
Wakana Utagawa	1907	1910
Kanzan Shimomura	1903	1905

READING LIST https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZSGKnU8pWmEC&pg=RA2-PA31-IA3&dq=england+japan+art&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF3Lus3KztAhWjSBUIHVdUC3A4ZBDoATAAegQIABAC#v=onepage&q=england%20japan%20art&f=false

Further reading

• Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes : The Art and Writings of Yoshio Markino, 1897-1915, William Rodner, John Carpenter, 2012, BRILL

See Also

• Anglo-Japanese style
• Japonisme
• Japanese Art

References

• The dictionary definition of tykelass/sandbox at Wiktionary
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• Quotations related to TykeLass/sandbox at Wikiquote

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Kinder, Thomas William unlocked (1817–1884) Roy S. Hanashiro https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/100919 Published online: 27 May 2010 Kinder, Thomas William (1817–1884), engineer and director of the Japanese imperial mint, was born on 10 November 1817 in London (he was baptized at St Andrew's, Holborn), the elder of two sons, and second child, of Thomas Kinder, a prosperous coachmaker of Gray's Inn Lane and later South Bank, and his wife, Susanna. He attended the Temple School, Brighton, run by George Keith Fennell. On 4 December 1840 he received the rank of ensign in the Worcester militia. In 1843 he married Mary Elizabeth Wheeler (1817–1887), with whom he had five children: Dennett Thomas, Ernest, Alice Mary, Claude William, and Edith Louise.

In 1845 Kinder and his business partner, Richard Johnson, established railway works at Bromsgrove and Oldbury and in 1849 entered into an agreement with the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway to run the company's locomotives. He leased and managed the Midland Great Western Railway in Ireland from 1851 until 1855. He meanwhile gained promotion in the militia, to lieutenant in 1846 and to captain in 1853. In 1859, after the disbanding of Worcester militia, he was reassigned to the 3rd West York militia; he retired in 1870 with the rank of major.

Kinder was recognized as an accomplished mechanical engineer and was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in December 1860. His mechanical engineering and supervisory background led to his being recommended, in 1863, by Thomas Graham, master of the Royal Mint in London, for the position of master of the Royal Hong Kong Mint: 'He is I find well known to and esteemed by the Engineers of London, and his appointment would I believe meet the general approval of that body' (Graham to governor of Hong Kong, 17 Oct 1863, TNA: PRO, Mint 1/44). In November 1863 Kinder was appointed to the office with an annual salary of £1400. He was allowed to bring his family and was provided with free lodging within the mint compounds. In less than a year, the Hong Kong mint became operational and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 February 1864. This mint was short lived, because Chinese merchants preferred to use Mexican silver dollars, and it closed in 1868.

In 1868 the newly formed Meiji government in Japan instituted a monetary reform to create confidence in the Japanese currency system, an issue whose importance had been identified in 1863 by the British Treasury official and monetary expert George Arbuthnot. One of the priorities was to establish a mint deploying Western technology to create accurate and trustworthy coinage. The Meiji government decided to purchase the Hong Kong mint's machinery and building materials, and dispatched Ueno Kagenori to Hong Kong for this transaction. In October 1868 the machinery arrived in Osaka, where buildings were erected to the designs of the Irish-born architect Thomas Waters. Through Ueno the Meiji government learned of the difficulties of operating a mint and abandoned its plan to operate the mint without any assistance from foreigners. It was Ueno who also suggested to the Meiji officials that Kinder be hired for technical assistance and that he was willing to move to Japan. The Meiji government and Oriental Bank Corporation (a British financial institution) entered into an agreement in August 1869, making the Oriental Bank an agent to hire foreign technical experts for the Japanese mint. Kinder in turn agreed a contract with the Oriental Bank in March 1870 and was dispatched to Osaka as director of the Japanese imperial mint.

Kinder had a five-year contract with a handsome salary of 1045 Mexican silver dollars per month, an all expenses paid first-class passage, and free lodging in Osaka. He was the highest-paid official at the mint, his earnings being more than twenty-nine times those of an average Japanese official. Indeed his salary was higher than that of the prime minister. The contract with the Oriental Bank gave him considerable authority at the mint. He had to organize a system of coinage and had control over various departments to ensure the high quality of coins. He was the supervisor of all those involved with technical matters at the mint, whether they were foreigners or Japanese. Only the chief Japanese officer (commissioner) and those staff in the accountants' department did not report to him.

By May 1870 Kinder was at the mint in Osaka attending to his responsibilities, and on 4 April 1871 the opening ceremony took place in front of both Japanese and foreign dignitaries. During his tenure the mint contributed greatly to monetary reform, and the coins produced there received an excellent reputation both in Japan and the outside world. Kinder also trained Japanese staff to undertake the technical work. His directorship was a colourful one, with a number of clashes with the commissioners over the extent of his authority. He introduced a contractual basis for working conditions, with set working hours, salaries, and benefits, and insisted on obedience to the rules, including the wearing of Western-style uniforms, which he designed. As a result of his vociferous disputes with the commissioners the Japanese officials nicknamed him Mr Thunder. Regarding him as stern, impersonal, and arrogant, middle-ranking officials instigated moves to oust him when his contract and those of most of the other foreign staff came up for renewal.

Kinder's contract was not renewed, and his appointment as director of the Japanese imperial mint ceased at the end of January 1875. In February 1875 he and other foreigners whose employment was terminated received a certificate of service and farewell gifts from the Meiji government. Kinder was given special treatment: he received additional gifts and was ordered to have an audience with the emperor of Japan. This gesture was a high honour and Kinder expressed his sincere gratitude. He returned to Britain, where he latterly resided at Beaumont, Torquay, Devon, while also spending some time in France because of his wife's health. He collapsed and died of heart disease in the waiting room at Norwood Junction railway station on 2 September 1884, and was buried on 8 September at the extramural cemetery in Torquay, where his widow was also later buried.

Sources R. S. Hanashiro, Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese imperial mint, 1868–1875 (1999) The Times (6 Sept 1884) PICE, 78 (1884), 448–50 Osaka Zoheikyoku Shiryo (Osaka Mint Bureau Archives), Osaka Zoheijigyo no kaishi [Commencing of the mint] National Diet Library, Tokyo, Inoue Kaoru documents National Diet Library, Tokyo, Ueno Kagenori documents CUL, Jardine Matheson collection Zoheikyoku hyakunenshi (1976) census returns, 1851, 1861, 1881 IGI Likenesses photograph, repro. in Hanashiro, Kinder, 118 Wealth at Death £6701 3s. 2d.: probate, 4 Oct 1884, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

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