Tokyo Takanawa orai kuruma zukushi yukiai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Display of vehicles in Takanawa Tokyo. – Antique 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 Tokyo Takanawa orai kuruma zukushi yukiai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Display of vehicles in Takanawa Tokyo.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tokyo Takanawa orai kuruma zukushi yukiai no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Display of vehicles in Takanawa Tokyo.
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Takanawa, a post town on the old Tokaido road at the edge of Tokyo, is the setting here, where a crowd gathers around an assortment of carriages, rickshaws and other conveyances. Rickshaws had only recently spread through the capital by 1871, and the catalog also lists a railroad, a sign of the new transport the artist wanted to show. The Shimbashi to Yokohama line opened the following year, in 1872. The triptych was designed by Ichiyōsai Kuniteru II, and the engraving is credited to Koizumi Minokichi. The left sheet is missing from this set.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (2 sheets) : woodcut color ; each block 35 x 24.2 cm. each sheet 35.8 x 24.7 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ichiyōsai Kuniteru ga. Seal date: Goat. Triptych matted in separate sections; left section is missing: right (69a) center (69b). DLC Backed with black ink print and text unidentified. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 35; 47623a. Earlier control number: 4894.6-3. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Form of name (100) in original record: Kuniteru II Ichiyosai; Source of name (100): Lane p. 296. |
| Subjects | Carriages & coaches--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1800. Rickshaws--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1800. Railroads--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1800. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,083 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227275 |
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