Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Banquet at a foreign mercantile house in Yokohama. – 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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Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Banquet at a foreign mercantile house in Yokohama.
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Unlike most Yokohama views of the period, this print turns indoors to show a dinner at a foreign trading house, with the guests and servants identified by written labels as English, Chinese, and Siamese. Yokohama had opened to foreign trade only in 1859, and its merchants and their households were a novelty to Japanese viewers. Artists such as Utagawa Sadahide, who signed this sheet as Gountei Sadahide, recorded such scenes for a curious public. The color woodcut was also the work of several hands, with the engraving attributed to Matsushima Seikichi, a reminder of how many craftsmen went into a single sheet.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34.5 x 23.5 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Yokokawa Hori Take [Takejirō]. Seal date: Cock 1. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 62; 2-85-865.3; Sadahide; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 29; England; Nankin; Siam (Indian). DLC Inscriptions: Igirisujin (English) Nankinjin (Chinese) Tenjiku shiyam kokujin (Black Indian Siamese). Earlier control number: 7710-19. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--English--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Merchants--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Eating & drinking--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Cooks--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,075 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227329 |
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