Seiyojin shuen no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Banquet at foreign settlement house. – Antique Wall Art
(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 Seiyojin shuen no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Banquet at foreign settlement house.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Seiyojin shuen no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Banquet at foreign settlement house.
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Set across two sheets, this diptych shows a banquet held inside a foreign settlement house, a subject that drew Japanese printmakers' curiosity in the years after the port of Yokohama opened to foreign residents in 1859. Such Yokohama prints, known as *yokohama-e*, recorded the unfamiliar dress, furniture, and table manners of Western visitors for a Japanese audience. The record credits Utagawa Yoshikazu with the design and attributes the engraving to Hori Chō, while the other artist names listed are inconsistent, so attribution is best treated as provisional. The paired sheets are worth studying for how they divide a crowded interior across the two blocks.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (2 sheets) : woodcut color ; 34.5 x 24 cm. (each block) 37.2 x 25 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori Chō. Seal date: Cock 1. Diptych matted in separate sections: right (131a) left (131b). Annotation in pencil on mount: Utagawa Yoshikazu (fl.1850-1870) Seiyo-jin shuen no zu (Dinner at the Foreign settlement house). Diptych Y6. DLC Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 93; 47623a (white label); 20-2; LC2585. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 22 (p. 99) Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Eating & drinking--Japan--1860-1870. Banquets--Japan--1860-1870. Lodging houses--Japan--1860-1870. Dining rooms--Japan--1860-1870. Foreign visitors--Japan--1860-1870. |
| 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-227248 |
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