Yokohama ijin shokan no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign mercantile house in Yokohama. – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: Yokohama ijin shokan no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign mercantile house in Yokohama., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yokohama ijin shokan no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign mercantile house in Yokohama.
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Printed across three sheets to form one wide scene, this woodcut shows a foreign trading house in Yokohama, a port that had only opened to international trade in 1859. The design is by Gountei Sadahide, an Edo-based artist known for his views of the new foreign settlements, and it was cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi. Catalogers tag the scene with foreign visitors, geishas, courtesans, food and drink, and lodging, which points to the mix of commerce and leisure that drew people to the foreign quarter. Prints like this sold well to Japanese buyers curious about the newcomers, and today they preserve a vivid record of that brief period of cultural contact.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 37 x 25 cm. (each block) 38 x 25.7 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Seal date: Cock [9]. Triptych matted in separate sections: right (92a) center (92b) left (92c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 40; 47623a (white label). DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 53 (p. 140-41) Earlier control number: 7710-4. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Print is torn. Backed. |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Entertainment--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Geishas--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Courtesans--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Eating & drinking--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Lodging houses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,995 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227337 |
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