Tokyo shimbashi rengaishi tetsudo jokisha shinkei zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Brick building and steam train in Shimbashi Tokyo. – Vintage Photo 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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Tokyo shimbashi rengaishi tetsudo jokisha shinkei zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Brick building and steam train in Shimbashi Tokyo. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tokyo shimbashi rengaishi tetsudo jokisha shinkei zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Brick building and steam train in Shimbashi Tokyo.
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A brick building and a steam locomotive share this pairing of sheets, which captures Shimbashi in 1872, the year Japan's first railway opened between Shimbashi and Yokohama. The surrounding Ginza district was rebuilt in brick and stone after a major fire that year, part of a government push to modernize the capital. Rickshaws, carts and horse-drawn carriages crowd the street in the foreground, showing how new technology shared the roads with older ways of getting around. The print was made by the woodcut artist Koizumi Minokichi, and this surviving copy is missing its left section.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (2 sheets) : woodcut color ; each block 35 x 23 cm. each sheet 37 x 24.8 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. Two sections of a triptych matted separately: right (22a) center (22b). Left section is missing. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 182; 47623a. Earlier control number: 182. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | City & town life--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. Rickshaws--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. Carts & wagons--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. Railroads--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,679 × 4,574 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227274 |
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