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Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai – Antique Wall Art

Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai, Japan : Maruya Jinpachi, 1861. — historic print
Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai, Japan : Maruya Jinpachi, 1861.. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(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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Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai, or "Coming and going of American steamships," is a three-sheet color woodcut that shows the paddle steamers and piers of a Western port. Issen Yoshikazu signed the design, and Maruya Jinpachi published it in 1861 as part of a series called Images of the Western World. Yokohama had opened to foreign trade only two years earlier, in 1859, and local printmakers quickly took up its ships, wharves and foreign residents as new subjects. The triptych shows how Japanese artists pictured Western technology in the years just after the ports opened.

Created / publishedJapan : Maruya Jinpachi, 1861.
Medium1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 35.4 x 25.4 cm. (each block), 35.5 x 25.5 cm. (each sheet)
GenreTriptychs Japanese 1860-1870.Woodcuts Japanese Color 1860-1870.
NotesTitle from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheet. From series entitled: Images of the western world. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 106; 47623a. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 66 (p. 162) Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSide wheelers--American--United States--1860-1870. Transportation--United States--1860-1870. Piers & wharves--United States--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,494 × 4,546 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221941

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