Tokaido Kanagawa urashima-dera sanjo ni okeru ikokusen hasso chobo no keiTITLE TRANSLATION:Eight foreign ships seen from Urashima temple hill Kanagawa. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Tokaido Kanagawa urashima-dera sanjo ni okeru ikokusen hasso chobo no keiTITLE TRANSLATION:Eight foreign ships seen from Urashima temple hill Kanagawa. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tokaido Kanagawa urashima-dera sanjo ni okeru ikokusen hasso chobo no keiTITLE TRANSLATION:Eight foreign ships seen from Urashima temple hill Kanagawa.
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This print shows eight foreign warships anchored in the harbor at Kanagawa, seen from the hill of Urashima temple along the Tokaido road. Kanagawa was one of the places where Japan was pressed to open its ports in the early 1850s, and the arrival of American naval squadrons under Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 and 1854 drew intense public interest. Prints like this one turned those unfamiliar hulls and rigging into a subject for popular audiences. The catalog record credits Utagawa Hiroshige, though the dates attached to the artist and the 1850 date are uncertain, so the print is best read as a product of the Perry era rather than a firm record of a single moment.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut b&w ; 21.4 x 31.5 cm. (block) 24.8 x 34.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 160; 47623a (white label); LC2585. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Harbors--Japan--Kanagawa-ken--1850-1900. Military personnel--American--Japan--Kanagawa-ken--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 994 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227690 |
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