Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu – Vintage Print
![Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu, Japan : Ōmeidō, [1879]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/151e3f2c99bb-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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A window into the past: Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu
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Rather than a Tokyo parade ground, this triptych is set in Yokohama, the treaty port where British and French soldiers were a visible presence in the 1870s. The three sheets show foreign troops at drill, part of the Yokohama-e tradition of prints that recorded the Western newcomers. Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi, who signed the work in brush, was by then an established artist working in a period when Japan was rapidly adopting Western military methods after the Meiji Restoration. The uniforms and formations are rendered with careful detail across all three panels.
| Created / published | Japan : Ōmeidō, [1879]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 35.8 x 24 cm. (each block), 35.8 x 24.5 cm. (each sheet) |
| Genre | Triptychs Japanese 1870-1880.Woodcuts Japanese Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi fude (with pawlonia seal). Seal date: Hare 8. Triptych matted in 3 sections: right (181a), center (181b), left (181c). Annotation in pencil on mount of 181a: Utagawa, Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Military Manoeuvres of the English and French armies / Pt III. DLC Annotation in pencil on mount of 181b: Utagawa, Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Military Manoeuvres of the English and French armies / Pt II. DLC Annotation in pencil on mount of 181c: Utagawa, Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Military Manoeuvres of the English and French armies / Pt I. DLC Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of 181a: 148(3); LC2585; 8-2. DLC Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of 181b: 148(2); LC2585; 8-1. DLC Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of 181c: 148; LC2585. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian |
| Subjects | Military training--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Military maneuvers--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Military personnel--French--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Military personnel--English--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,606 × 4,512 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221918 |
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