Gaikokujin kodomo choai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Picture of foreigners love for children. – Historic 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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Step back in time with Gaikokujin kodomo choai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Picture of foreigners love for children., a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gaikokujin kodomo choai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Picture of foreigners love for children.
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Few subjects in early Yokohama prints were as unusual as foreigners at home with their children, and this color woodcut from 1860 depicts exactly that. Yokohama had opened to foreign trade only the year before, so Japanese publishers were eager to show the newcomers and their customs. The sheet is credited to the writer Kanagaki Robun (1829-1894), with the design signed by Issen Yoshikazu and cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi. Its subjects, including foreign visitors, mothers and children, and clothing, reflect the curiosity of the time.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver.Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 22.5 cm. (block) 36.7 x 24 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey 10. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 105; 47623a (white label); LC2585. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 24 (p. 101) Earlier control number: 9942.25-26. 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. Mothers & children--Japan--1860. Women--Domestic life--Japan--1860. Clothing & dress--Japan--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,000 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227311 |
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