Yokohama tetsudō jōki shussha no zu – Vintage Wall Art
![Yokohama tetsudō jōki shussha no zu, Japan : Iseya Kenkichi, [ca. 1872] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0a/0a75e293a8b6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Yokohama tetsudō jōki shussha no zu. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A steam locomotive pulling out of Yokohama fills this three-sheet woodcut triptych, and the subject itself marks a turning point. The line it depicts was Japan's first railway, linking Shimbashi in Tokyo with Yokohama and opening in 1872, the year this print is dated to. The artist, Baidō Kunimasa III, signed the sheets, and Iseya Kenkichi published the work. Their decision to treat a new machine and its passengers as a popular subject shows how quickly the railway became part of public life. The wide triptych format lets the engine stretch across the full scene, so the print works as a record of a technology that had only just arrived.
| Created / published | Japan : Iseya Kenkichi, [ca. 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36.5 x 24 cm.(each block); 37 x 24.2 cm. (each sheet) |
| Genre | Woodcuts Japanese Color 1870-1880.Triptychs Japanese Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Baidō Kunimasa fude. Triptych matted in 3 separate sections: right (66a), center (66b), left (66c). Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 32; 47623a. Earlier control number: 32. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Form of name (100) in original record: Kunimasa III; Source of name (100): Lane, p. 296. |
| Subjects | Railroads--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Passengers--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,602 × 4,501 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223675 |
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