Gokakoku jinbutsu - dontaku no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:People of five nations - Sunday. – Historic Reproduction
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Set in the Foreign Settlement at Yokohama, this three-sheet woodcut shows Western residents and visitors at their leisure, with scenes of eating and drinking, dress, lodging houses, and the waterfront piers. Its title, *Gokakoku jinbutsu* (People of Five Nations), refers to the foreigners who came to the port after it opened in 1859. The print was signed by Utagawa Yoshitora and published in 1861, when such images were popular with Japanese buyers curious about newcomers whose clothing and customs looked strange to them. Prints like this served as both entertainment and a rough visual record of a new and unfamiliar community.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver.Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36.5 x 24.8 cm. (each block) 37 x 25 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Cock 12. Triptych matted in separate sections: right (168a) center (168b) left (168c). From series entitled: Gokakoku jinbutsu (People of five nations). Annotation in pencil on mounts: Yoshitora Foreign Settlement House Yokohama part 1; 9942.3-26 ; Foreign Settlement House Yokohama part 2 ; Foreign Settlement House Yokohama part 3. DLC Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 47623a (white label); 137. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 52 (p. 139) Earlier control number: 9942.3-26. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). 168c: FP 2 - Chadbourne no. 141 |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--1860-1870. Eating & drinking--Japan--1860-1870. Clothing & dress--Japan--1860-1870. Lodging houses--Japan--1860-1870. Piers & wharves--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,049 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227313 |
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