Gaikoku kanjin orai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign officials around town. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Gaikoku kanjin orai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign officials around town. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gaikoku kanjin orai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign officials around town.
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Foreign officials traveling through Yokohama by carriage is the subject here, a sight that would have been new to most Japanese viewers in 1860. The port had opened to foreign trade only a year earlier, following the 1858 treaties, and the foreign settlement along the bay quickly became a place where diplomats, merchants and residents were a daily presence. Issen Yoshikazu designed the picture and Koizumi Minokichi cut the woodblocks, part of a wave of Yokohama views that showed the newcomers and their vehicles to audiences across Japan. The detail in the dress, the carriages and the streetscape is the main thing worth studying.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 22.5 cm. (block) 37 x 25.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey [11]. Annotation in pencil on mount: Yokohama - Foreign officers/offices. DLC Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 102; 47623a. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 20 (p. 97) Earlier control number: 9942.25. 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--Yokohama-shi--1860. Carriages & coaches--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Transportation--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,028 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227276 |
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