Amerika nigiwai 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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Amerika nigiwai no zu comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rather than the usual street scenes, this three-sheet woodcut focuses on Americans and their clothing, set against the bustle of city life in the early 1860s. Published in 1861 by Yamajin (Yamashiroya Jinbei) and signed Hiroshige, it belongs to a series called *Images of the Western World*. Japan had opened its ports to foreign trade only a few years earlier, and print artists eagerly recorded the newcomers' dress and manners, so this sheet offers a lively record of how Japanese viewers saw foreign residents at that moment.
| Created / published | Japan : Yamajin (Yamashiroya Jinbei), 1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; each block 35.5 x 24.5 cm.; each sheet 35.5 x 24.5 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. Source of name (700): LCNA; there are 2 700s, which one is it? Assigned to Hiroshige II based on information from LC exhibit website. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Seal date: Cock 9. Triptych formerly housed in 3 separate sections; rehoused in single mat. Annotation in pencil on mount: H1. From series entitled: Images of the western world. Annotations, stamps, etc., on verso of print: 4; LC2585; 47623a (white label). 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. 70 (p. 132) Yokohama ukiyoe : Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening / Tsuneo Tamba. [Japan : 1962] Earlier control number: 4162. 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 | Americans--Clothing & dress--1860-1870. City & town life--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,572 × 4,497 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221915 |
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