Yokohama tetsudo joki shussha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:First steam train leaving Yokohama. – Vintage 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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This historic print of Yokohama tetsudo joki shussha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:First steam train leaving Yokohama. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Yokohama tetsudo joki shussha no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:First steam train leaving Yokohama.
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This three-sheet woodcut triptych shows the first steam train in Japan departing Yokohama in 1872, the year the railway linking the port with Shimbashi in Tokyo opened. The design is signed by the print designer Baidō Kunimasa III, and the carving and printing were handled by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi. Prints like this were popular in the early Meiji period, when newspapers and illustrated sheets recorded the arrival of Western technology. Its wide format lets the viewer take in the locomotive, its carriages, and the passengers gathered on the platform.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36.5 x 24 cm.(each block); 37 x 24.2 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Baidō Kunimasa fude. Triptych matted in 3 separate sections: right (66a) center (66b) left (66c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 32; 47623a. Earlier control number: 32. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Form of name (100) in original record: Kunimasa III; Source of name (100): Lane p. 296. |
| Subjects | Railroads--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. Passengers--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,558 × 4,442 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227724 |
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