Gokakoku ... gankiro ni oite sakamori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Five nations - merrymaking at the Gankiro tea 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: Gokakoku ... gankiro ni oite sakamori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Five nations - merrymaking at the Gankiro tea house., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gokakoku ... gankiro ni oite sakamori no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Five nations - merrymaking at the Gankiro tea house.
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Set in the Gankiro teahouse in Yokohama, this three-sheet woodcut triptych shows foreign visitors and courtesans at a party, with the title "Five Nations" pointing to the mix of nationalities in the room. Ikkeisai Yoshiiku designed the scene in 1860, a few years after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, when the new port drew a steady stream of Western merchants, sailors and curious onlookers. Matsushima Seikichi is credited as engraver, and the print's color and lively crowding make it a useful record of how the foreign presence was pictured in Japanese popular prints of the period.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut color ; 36.5 x 24.5 cm. (each block) 37 x 24.8 cm. (each sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori Take. Seal date: Monkey 12. Triptych in 3 sections (matted together): right (101a) center (101b) left (101c). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 75; 47623a (white label). DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 59 (p. 149) The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows dreams and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.]. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Library of Congress 2001 no. 106 p. 171 Earlier control number: 9942.1-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows dreams and substances organized by the Library of Congress 2001. |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Entertainment--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Courtesans--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Eating & drinking--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860. Teahouses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227336 |
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