Tokyo tsukiji kaigunsho heikikyu shiken narabini ni ju seiyokan chobo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Japanese navy department tests balloons in front of the American Consulate. – 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 rare historic print captures Tokyo tsukiji kaigunsho heikikyu shiken narabini ni ju seiyokan chobo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Japanese navy department tests balloons in front of the American Consulate. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tokyo tsukiji kaigunsho heikikyu shiken narabini ni ju seiyokan chobo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Japanese navy department tests balloons in front of the American Consulate.
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This three-sheet triptych shows a balloon test carried out by the Japanese navy at Tsukiji, in Tokyo, with the American Consulate in front of which the test takes place. It places a new Western technology in the foreign quarter of a rapidly modernizing city in the early Meiji period. The sheets are signed by Yoshitora, and the record lists Kuniaki and Toyokuni among the artists, while the set came to the Library of Congress as a gift in 1930. Note the onlookers, including women and foreign visitors, gathered to watch the spectacle.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36.2 x 24.2 cm. (each block) 36.2 x 24.7 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Date from no. 151 a b. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Hare 6. Triptych matted in 3 separate sections: right (179a) center (179b) left (179c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 6; 114; 47623a (white label). DLC Related to print no. 151 a b c. Earlier control number: 9942.3-3. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Balloons (Aircraft)--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. Military art & science--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. Consulates--American--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. Consuls--American--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. Women--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--American--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,047 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227247 |
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