Yokohama shoka komojin sho a mitomu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners in Yokohama draw up contract in mercantile house. – 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: Yokohama shoka komojin sho a mitomu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners in Yokohama draw up contract in mercantile house., 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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Yokohama shoka komojin sho a mitomu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreigners in Yokohama draw up contract in mercantile house.
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Foreign merchants gathered around a table in a Yokohama trading house to draw up a contract, and inscriptions identifying the men as Dutch and German point to the mix of nationalities that came to the port after it opened to foreign trade in 1859. The design is signed by Gountei Sadahide, the name used by the Edo-period printmaker Utagawa Sadahide, who became a leading chronicler of Yokohama's foreign community, and the sheet is dated 1861. Take note of the setting and the figures' clothing, which reflect the cultural mixing that treaty-port prints often recorded.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33.5 x 24.5 cm. (block) 35 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Yokogawa Hori Take. Seal date: Cock 1. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: cy 1; 900 yen (in Japanese); 61; 47623a. DLC Inscriptions: orandajin (Dutch) doisurandojin (German). Earlier control number: 7710-18. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Commerce--Dutch--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Commerce--German--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Merchants--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. Contracts--1860-1870. Mercantile facilities--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,655 × 4,539 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227324 |
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