Yokohama kaiko kenbun-shi/ Things seen and heard at the Yokohama Open Port

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Yokohama kaiko kenbun-shi/ Things seen and heard at the Yokohama Open Port

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The major Japanese Utagawa school artist Sadahide (1807-73) came to fame with his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) and diversified into landscapes and warrior prints. However, he remains best known internationally for his depictions of exotic locales and events (e.g. the First Opium War), and he particularly focussed in the late 1850s and early 1860s on the port of Yokohama, which he also mapped in panorama form. Still a sleepy fishing village at the time of Commodore Perry’s mission in 1...

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Date created

1865

Creator

Utagawa Sadahide

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1529132

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Manners & customs / City & town life / Yokohama (Nihon) / paper / guidebooks / textbooks / works on paper / Late Edo / Japanese / Yokohama

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