Amerikajin yuko sakamoriTITLE TRANSLATION:American enjoying himself. – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Amerikajin yuko sakamoriTITLE TRANSLATION:American enjoying himself.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Amerikajin yuko sakamoriTITLE TRANSLATION:American enjoying himself.
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Titled *Amerikajin yuko*, roughly "An American Enjoying Himself," this Yokohama print shows a foreign visitor at a meal and drinking party with a courtesan, a scene the record files under foreigners, courtesans, and eating and drinking in Japan during the 1860s. The design is signed by Yoshitora, and the woodblock was cut by Matsushima Seikichi. Yokohama prints like this one were made after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859, when Westerners were a novelty for Japanese buyers. The picture mixes caricature with fascination, so it is worth looking at how the American is shown as both a guest and a spectacle.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 32 x 21 cm. (block) 36.2 x 23 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Signature: Yoshitora ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori[-]ko Masa. Extensive unidentified writing on backing sheet. Seal date: Cock 1. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: LC2585; 47623a (white label); 16. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 56 (p. 145) Earlier control number: 9942.3-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860-1870. Courtesans--Japan--1860-1870. Eating & drinking--Japan--1860-1870. Relations between the sexes--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 989 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227334 |
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