Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama.
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Few Yokohama prints show a foreign merchant at work so plainly. Here an Englishman sorts fabrics for trade in a port that had only opened to foreign commerce in 1859. The design is signed by the artist Gountei Sadahide, and the woodblocks were cut by the engraver Koizumi Minokichi. Prints like this one circulated widely and recorded the newcomers and goods moving through the port's merchant houses in the early 1860s, making this sheet a useful glimpse of that trade.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 24.5 cm. (block) 36 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 49; 12; 47623a (white label); LC2585. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 23 (p. 100) Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum 1972 no. 37 (p. 25) Earlier control number: 7710-11. 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--1860-1870. Textiles--1860-1870. Merchants--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,038 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227649 |
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