Atago yama choboTITLE TRANSLATION:Enjoying the view from Atago hill. – Vintage 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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This rare historic print captures Atago yama choboTITLE TRANSLATION:Enjoying the view from Atago hill. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Atago yama choboTITLE TRANSLATION:Enjoying the view from Atago hill.
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Atago hill, the wooded height in Edo's Shiba district crowned by a shrine and a long stone stairway, is the setting here, and the title, "Enjoying the view from Atago hill," invites the viewer to take in the same prospect. The series name, "Foreign Sightseers at Famous Spots in Edo," places the print among the works Utagawa Sadahide and his circle made of Western visitors touring the city after Japan opened to foreign trade in the late 1850s. Such images gave Japanese viewers a close look at foreign dress and manners, and the French figures here are shown in their Western clothing. The record credits Matsushima Seikichi as engraver, a reminder that each color woodcut passed through many skilled hands.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 36 x 25 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Yokogawa Hori Iwa. Seal date: Cock 1. From series entitled: Tōto meishō kenbutsu ijin (Foreign sightseers at famous spots in Edo). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 54; 47623a (white label). DLC Inscriptions: Furansu (French) Asakusa (Asakusa). Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum 1972 no. 43 (p. 26) Earlier control number: 7710-15. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--French--Japan--Edo--1860-1870. Sightseers--Japan--Edo--1860-1870. French--Clothing & dress--Japan--Edo--1860-1870. Tokyo (Japan)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,621 × 4,545 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227665 |
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