Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai – 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: Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai, 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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Amerikakoku jōkisha ōrai
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Three joined sheets show American side-wheel steamers and the piers and wharves beside them, a subject that sets this print apart from the foreign-ship views on the board. Maruya Jinpachi published it in 1861, and the signature names Issen Yoshikazu as the artist. It belongs to a series on the Western world, and it appeared only a few years after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859. For Japanese buyers of the time, prints like this offered a view of unfamiliar ships and machinery. Today it records how Japanese artists first pictured steam power and foreign shipping.
| Created / published | Japan : Maruya Jinpachi, 1861. |
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| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 35.4 x 25.4 cm. (each block), 35.5 x 25.5 cm. (each sheet) |
| Genre | Triptychs Japanese 1860-1870.Woodcuts Japanese Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheet. From series entitled: Images of the western world. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 106; 47623a. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 66 (p. 162) Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Side wheelers--American--United States--1860-1870. Transportation--United States--1860-1870. Piers & wharves--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,611 × 4,497 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221943 |
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