Gaikokujin Yokohama ni oite kyokubaTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign circus in Yokohama. – Historic 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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Step back in time with Gaikokujin Yokohama ni oite kyokubaTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign circus in Yokohama., a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gaikokujin Yokohama ni oite kyokubaTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign circus in Yokohama.
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Foreign performers are the focus of this woodcut, which shows a circus staged in Yokohama, a port that had opened to foreign trade only in 1859. Issen Yoshikazu, a pupil of the prolific Utagawa Kuniyoshi, signed the print, and its seal date places it in 1864. Prints like this recorded the novelty of acrobats and riders from abroad, whose shows likely drew both Japanese onlookers and the foreign residents of the new settlement. The wide horizontal sheet gives room to take in the performers and the spectators around them.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35.2 x 73 cm. (block) 35.2 x 73 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Rat 4. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 3; 1879; 100; 47623a (white label). DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 60 (p. 150-51) Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Circuses & shows--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Circus performers--1860-1870. Acrobats--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 5,152 × 4,153 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227207 |
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