Shiodama yori jokisha tsuko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train coming from Shiodama (Shimbashi). – 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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A window into the past: Shiodama yori jokisha tsuko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train coming from Shiodama (Shimbashi)., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Shiodama yori jokisha tsuko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Steam train coming from Shiodama (Shimbashi).
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This three-sheet woodcut shows a steam locomotive arriving from Shiodama, the Shimbashi area of Tokyo, and it is one of the few views of the new railway that the record ties to a specific station. The print is signed by Shōsai Ikkei and cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi, and its seal date marks a Monkey year, which points to 1872, when the line between Shimbashi and Yokohama opened as Japan's first railway. Prints like this one recorded a new technology that drew crowds of curious onlookers, and the foreign visitors who appear in the subject headings reflect how the railway was seen as a sign of modern change.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; each block 36.5 x 24.2 cm. each sheet 37 x 24.8 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Shōsai Ikkei fude (with pawlonia seal). Seal date: Monkey. Triptych matted in 3 sections: right (60a) center (60b) left (60c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 25; 47623a; 25. Earlier control number: 25. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Source of name (100): Lane p. 278. |
| Subjects | Railroads--Japan--1870-1880. Railroad stations--Japan--1870-1880. Foreign visitors--Japan--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,587 × 4,460 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227671 |
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