Yokohama kenbutsu zueTITLE TRANSLATION:Sights in Yokohama. – Historic Print
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Foreign residents and their possessions are the focus here. The inscriptions name an American clock and a "photographic mirror," the early Japanese term for a camera. Yokohama had opened to foreign trade only a year or two earlier, and its treaty-port settlements brought in merchants, diplomats and their families, whose imported goods fascinated Japanese print buyers. Issen Yoshikazu, a pupil of Kuniyoshi, was one of several artists who turned these novelties into a popular genre of Yokohama views. The seal date points to about 1860, when the series was being issued.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 24.5 cm. (block) 34 x 24.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey 11. From series entitled: Yokohama kenbutsu zue (Sights in Yokohama). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 47623a (white label); 85-; LC2585. DLC Inscriptions: Shashinkyō (Photographic mirror) Tokei shashin amerika (Picture of an American clock). Earlier control number: 9942.25-6. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Images from the Floating World: the Japanese print / Richard Lane. New York : G.P. Putnams Sons 1978 p. 348 ill. 728 (entitled Foreign melange). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Spouses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Mental states--1860. Clocks & watches--1860. Portrait paintings--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,022 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227301 |
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