Yokohama torai Amerika shonin ryoko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American merchant strolling in Yokohama. – Antique 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 Yokohama torai Amerika shonin ryoko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American merchant strolling in Yokohama. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yokohama torai Amerika shonin ryoko no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American merchant strolling in Yokohama.
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Rather than a harbor scene or a row of trading houses, this woodcut shows an American merchant strolling through Yokohama with a child and a dog, a domestic outing that would have looked striking to Japanese viewers in 1861. The port had opened to foreign trade only a few years earlier, in 1859, and its foreign residents became a popular subject for artists of the so-called Yokohama prints. The design is signed by Gountei Sadahide, a leading ukiyo-e artist of the period, and the block was cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35 x 25 cm. (block) 36.5 x 26.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Yokokawa Hori Take. Seal date: Cock 1. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 43; 47623a (white label); LC2585; Sadahide; 6 ; on recto: B2. DLC Inscriptions: (American) (Daughter). Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum 1972 no. 31 (p. 25) Yokohama ukiyoe : Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening / Tsuneo Tamba. [Japan : 1962] Earlier control number: 7710-5. 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--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Merchants--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Fathers & children--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Dogs--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,119 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227370 |
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