Yokohama kaigan tetsudo jokisha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Yokohama kaigan tetsudo jokisha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train in Yokohama.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yokohama kaigan tetsudo jokisha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train in Yokohama.
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A steam locomotive rolls along the waterfront in this triptych, a sight that would have been new to most viewers when it was printed in 1872. The Yokohama Kaigan line opened that year as Japan's first public railway, linking the port city with Shimbashi in Tokyo. The signature reads Hiroshige, but the record credits two artists of that name, the elder of whom died in 1869, so the attribution is best understood as the work of the Utagawa studio. The wide format lets the eye move from the engine to the harbor and the crowds gathered along the shore.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34.5 x 34.6 cm. (block) 34.5 x 34.6 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Triptych one mat. Number 395 stamped along left side of left panel; possibly indicates impression no. 395 of this issue. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of right panel: LC2585; on verso of center panel: LC2585; on verso of left panel: 47623. Seal date is illegible. Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 No. 79 (pp. 182-183) Earlier control number: 8. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Source of name (700): LCNA. Attribution to Hiroshige III from Yonemura. |
| Subjects | City & town life--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Railroads--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Harbors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 751 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227300 |
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