Takanawa Igirisu kanTITLE TRANSLATION:British house in Takanawa. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Takanawa Igirisu kanTITLE TRANSLATION:British house in Takanawa.
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Few views from this period show a Western building in Tokyo, which sets this print apart from the temples, gardens, and street scenes that dominate the series *Tōkyō meisho zue* (Sights in Tokyo). Its title, *Takanawa Igirisu kan*, identifies a British house in Takanawa, a district on the southern edge of the city where foreign diplomats were housed after the port opened in the late 1850s. The print dates to 1868, the year the Meiji government took power and Edo was renamed Tokyo, a time of rapid change in how the city looked and who lived in it. The design is credited to Hiroshige, the artist whose name appears as a signature, while Koizumi Minokichi cut the woodblocks.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 22.5 cm. (block) 36.5 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Hiroshige fude. Seal date: Dragon 11. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 10; 47623a (white label); 34. From series entitled: Tōkyō meisho zue (Sights in Tokyo). Earlier control number: 4162-10. 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--1860-1870. Houses--Japan--Tokyo--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,218 × 4,014 px · prints to 11 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227296 |
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