Tokyo Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendo ofuku jokitetsudo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:View of Ueno-Nakasendo railway from Ueno station Tokyo. – Antique Photo 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 Tokyo Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendo ofuku jokitetsudo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:View of Ueno-Nakasendo railway from Ueno station Tokyo.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Tokyo Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendo ofuku jokitetsudo no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:View of Ueno-Nakasendo railway from Ueno station Tokyo.
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Few views from the 1880s capture Tokyo's railways as directly as this color woodcut triptych, which shows the rail line running from Ueno Station, the northern terminus that opened in 1883. The title's reference to the Nakasendo points to the old highway that linked Edo with the interior, and the railway built alongside it marked the arrival of steam travel in a city still rich in traditional townscape. The print is credited to Utagawa Hiroshige, a name shared by several members of a long-running Ukiyo-e studio, and its three sheets are meant to be read together as one continuous scene of the new transport and the people moving through it.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; each block 36 x 24 cm. each sheet 36.5 x 25 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. Triptych matted separately in 3 sections: right (23a) center (23b) left (23c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 5-; 47623a. Earlier control number: 9057-1(3). Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | City & town life--Japan--Tokyo--1880-1890. Railroads--Japan--Tokyo--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,085 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227299 |
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