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Tsukiji kaigunsho...TITLE TRANSLATION:Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji. – Antique Print

Tsukiji kaigunsho...TITLE TRANSLATION:Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji., 304 — historic print
Tsukiji kaigunsho...TITLE TRANSLATION:Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji., 304. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(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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Tsukiji kaigunsho...TITLE TRANSLATION:Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Tsukiji kaigunsho...TITLE TRANSLATION:Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji.

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This three-sheet color woodcut shows a hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji, the Tokyo district that in the Meiji period housed foreign residents and new government institutions. The print's subjects, balloon ascents and foreign visitors, point to the 1870s, when Japan was eagerly adopting Western science and engineering, and crowds gathered to watch such demonstrations. Its creators are listed as Toyohara Kunichika, Utagawa Kuniaki, and Utagawa Toyokuni, members of the Utagawa school whose workshops produced many of the period's newsworthy scenes. Because the record's date is unclear, the exact year of this test is best read from the image itself.

Created / published304
CreatorToyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist.
Medium1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36.2 x 23.9 cm. (each block) 36.2 x 23.9 cm. (each sheet)
SubjectsBalloon ascensions--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan4,096 × 3,300 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227244

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