Yokohama koeki seiyojin nimotsu unso no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Western traders loading cargo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Yokohama koeki seiyojin nimotsu unso no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Western traders loading cargo in Yokohama.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Yokohama koeki seiyojin nimotsu unso no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Western traders loading cargo in Yokohama.
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Few subjects in Yokohama prints are as specific as this scene of Western merchants and their crews loading cargo at the waterfront, a view that became possible after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859. The work is signed Gountei Sadahide, the pseudonym of Utagawa Sadahide, one of the most prolific designers of the Yokohama print trade, and it was planned as a five-sheet panorama. Only two sections survive in this copy, so the full sweep of ships and longshoremen is only partly visible, though the remaining sheets still show how foreign shipping reshaped the harbor.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Murasaki Shikibu b. 978? author. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (2 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36 x 24.5 cm. (each block) 36.8 x 24.8 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Seal date: Cock 6. Pentaptych matted in separate sections: left-center (94b) left (94c); center right-center and right sections missing. DLC Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 52; 47623a (white label). DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 8 (p. 64) Earlier control number: 7710-13. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Meihi no hanga / Kimata Ryoji (five-panel version). |
| Subjects | Ships--American--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Shipping--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Longshoremen--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Transportation--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,174 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227712 |
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