Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Nankin FuransuTITLE TRANSLATION:People from foreign lands - China France. – 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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A window into the past: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Nankin FuransuTITLE TRANSLATION:People from foreign lands - China France., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Nankin FuransuTITLE TRANSLATION:People from foreign lands - China France.
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Two foreign men sit together at a table, one eating and drinking while the other talks, in this 1861 color woodcut from a series on "People from Foreign Lands." The title pairs a Chinese figure with a French one, which reflects how Japanese print makers of the time lumped newly arrived Westerners and Asian traders together as curiosities. The design is by Ikkeisai Yoshiiku, a prolific artist of the Yokohama print trade, and it was carved and printed with the help of the engraver Koizumi Minokichi. Yokohama had opened to foreign residents only in 1859, so prints like this one gave Japanese buyers an early look at the people living in the port's new foreign settlement.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 32.5 x 22 cm. (block) 36 x 24.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Seal date: Cock 2. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga (People from foreign lands). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 78-47623a. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 35 (p. 114) Earlier control number: 9942.1-10. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Eating & drinking--Japan--1860-1870. Conversation--Japan--1860-1870. Men--Japan--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--French--Japan--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--Chinese--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,013 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227292 |
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