Yokohama meisho benten: AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:Famous places in Yokohama: Americans. – 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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Yokohama meisho benten: AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:Famous places in Yokohama: Americans.
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Rather than landmarks, this sheet shows Americans themselves, as Japanese viewers saw them in Yokohama in 1861. The title, *Yokohama meisho benten*, promises famous local sights, but the subject is the foreign residents and visitors who arrived after the port opened to trade in 1859. Their Western clothing and dress drew the eye of printmakers working in the late Edo period, and the seal date, which refers to the cock year, places the sheet in the early years of the Yokohama-e style. The Library of Congress holds it as part of Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne's 1930 gift of Japanese prints.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35.5 x 25 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 6. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 83; LC2585; 47623a (white label); 38. DLC Earlier control number: 9942.25-4. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Americans--Clothing & dress--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--American--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Sightseers--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,054 × 5,000 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227236 |
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