Gaikokujin danjo kodomo asobiTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign boys and girls at play. – Antique 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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This rare historic print captures Gaikokujin danjo kodomo asobiTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign boys and girls at play. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gaikokujin danjo kodomo asobiTITLE TRANSLATION:Foreign boys and girls at play.
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Rather than Japanese children at their usual games, this print shows foreign boys and girls skipping rope and walking on stilts, activities that the subject headings of the record also name. It belongs to the Yokohama-e genre, which flourished after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859 and the new foreign community in Yokohama drew the curiosity of local artists and buyers. The design is credited to Issen Yoshikazu, and the color woodcut was engraved by Koizumi Minokichi. Images like this record a moment when Japanese viewers were first seeing Western residents up close.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33.5 x 22.5 cm. (block) 37 x 24.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey 11. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 97; LC2585; 47623a (white label); 14. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 51 (p. 138) Earlier control number: 9942.25-17. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Children playing--Japan--1860. Foreign visitors--Japan--1860. Rope skipping--Japan--1860. Stilts--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,045 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227287 |
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