URL: https://www.openculture.com/2018/11/a-japanese-illustrated-history-of-america.html
Emphasis my own:
Though I’m American myself, I always learn the most about America when I look outside it. When I want to hear my homeland described or see it reflected, I seek out the perspective of anyone other than my fellow Americans.
Reminds me of how there I noticed, and others, about how various groups of immigrants would form together at work—in a workplace and city with hundreds of nationalities and people present. A lot would have groups of their country-people...all except Americans.
I would frequently say, "yep! It's because we left the States to get away from Americans...not just hang out somewhere else!"
Two sentences into the article—resonance of memory.
...judging by Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi (童絵解万国噺), an 1861 book by writer Kanagaki Robun and artist Utagawa Yoshitora, it certainly has a more fantastical one. “Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America,” writes historian of Japan Nick Kapur...
Other illustrated events from early American history include “Washington’s “second-in-command” John Adams battling an enormous snake,” “the incredibly jacked Benjamin Franklin firing a cannon that he holds in his bare hands, while John Adams directs him where to fire,” and “George Washington straight-up punching a tiger.”