[Yokohama ijin yashiki]TITLE TRANSLATION:[Foreign settlement house in Yokohama]. – Historic Print
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(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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[Yokohama ijin yashiki]TITLE TRANSLATION:[Foreign settlement house in Yokohama].
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Here a lodging house in Yokohama's foreign settlement serves as the setting, with visitors in Western dress gathered for conversation. The design is signed Yoshitora, an Edo-based ukiyo-e artist who produced many prints of foreigners after the port opened to trade in 1859, and the woodblocks were cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi. This sheet is only one section of what was probably a multi-panel print, so the rest of the scene and its title panel are now missing.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 23.5 cm. (block) 36.2 x 23.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Single section of probable polyptych print other sections including section with title are missing. Title from finding aid. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Tiger 4. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 138; 47623a. DLC Earlier control number: 9942.3-27. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--1860-1870. Clothing & dress--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Conversation--1860-1870. Lodging houses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,018 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227322 |
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