Gokakoku ... gankirō ni oite sakamori no zu – 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 Gokakoku ... gankirō ni oite sakamori no zu in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Printed in 1860, the year after Yokohama opened to foreign trade, this three-sheet triptych shows a scene from the new treaty port's pleasure quarter. Its title names a place called Gankirō and refers to visitors from five countries, and its subjects are foreign guests, courtesans, and eating and drinking. The design is signed by Ikkeisai Yoshiiku, who made many prints of Yokohama's foreign residents, and the woodblock carving is attributed to Hori Take. Together, these details make the print a useful record of the social mixing that followed the port's opening.
| Created / published | Japan : Kiya, 1860. |
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| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36.5 x 24.5 cm. (each block), 37 x 24.8 cm. (each sheet) |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. Exhibited: Steeped in History : The Art of Tea" at the Fowler Museum |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori Take. Seal date: Monkey 12. Triptych in 3 sections (matted together): right (101a), center (101b), left (101c). Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 75; 47623a (white label). DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 59 (p. 149) The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.]. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Library of Congress, 2001, no. 106, p. 171 Earlier control number: 9942.1-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Entertainment--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Courtesans--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Eating & drinking--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Teahouses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,568 × 4,493 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221921 |
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