Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai – Antique 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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Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai
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Paddle-wheel steamers dominate this three-sheet woodcut, signed by the artist Issen Yoshikazu, with piers and wharves filling the waterfront behind them. The print comes from a series titled *Images of the western world* and was published in 1861 by Maruya Jinpachi. It reflects the fascination of the years after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, when Japanese buyers wanted pictures of the Western ships and visitors arriving in the port. Read together, the three sheets form one wide view of the harbor, and the crowded decks and docks show how busy that waterfront had become.
| Created / published | Japan : Maruya Jinpachi, 1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 35.4 x 25.4 cm. (each block), 35.5 x 25.5 cm. (each sheet) |
| Genre | Triptychs Japanese 1860-1870.Woodcuts Japanese Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title 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). |
| Subjects | Side wheelers--American--United States--1860-1870. Transportation--United States--1860-1870. Piers & wharves--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,635 × 4,444 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221942 |
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