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Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...
woodblock prints Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Each page or image is create ...
depicting non-
East Asian East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. China, North Korea, South Korea a ...
foreigners and scenes in the port city of
Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
. The port of Yokohama was opened to foreigners in 1859, and ukiyo-e artists, primarily of the
Utagawa school The Utagawa school () was one of the main schools of ukiyo-e, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu. It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period. The main styles were bijin-ga (beautiful women) and uki-e (perspective picture). His pupil, Toyokuni I, to ...
, produced more than 800 different
woodblock prints Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Each page or image is create ...
in response to a general curiosity about these strangers. The production of ceased in the 1880s. The most prolific artists working in this genre were
Utagawa Yoshitora was a designer of ''ukiyo-e'' Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, ...
, Utagawa Yoshikazu,
Utagawa Sadahide , also known as Gountei Sadahide (), was a Japanese artist best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school. His prints covered a wide variety of genres; amongst his best known are his ''Yokohama-e'' pictures of ...
,
Utagawa Yoshiiku , also known as or , was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school. Life and career Born the son of teahouse proprietor Asakusa Tamichi in 1833, Yoshiiku became a student of ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi toward the end of the 1840s. His earlie ...
, Utagawa Yoshimori, Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Hiroshige III, Utagawa Yoshitoyo, and Utagawa Yoshitomi.


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File:FrenchManWithGeisha1861.JPG, Woodblock print by
Utagawa Yoshitora was a designer of ''ukiyo-e'' Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, ...
of a Frenchman at the Gankirō brothel, 1861 File:First steam train leaving Yokohama.jpg, First steam train leaving Yokohama, triptych by
Utagawa Kunisada II Utagawa Kunisada II (, 1823 – 20 July 1880) was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' print designer, one of three to take the name "Utagawa Kunisada". He headed the Utagawa school. Life and career Little is known of Kunisada II's early life. A pupil of ...
, 1872 File:John James Audubon - Japanese woodcut.jpg, Japanese print showing American naturalist and ornithologist
John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...
(1785-1851) discovering that his work was eaten by a rat, unsigned File:Yokohama-Sumo-Wrestler-Defeating-a-Foreigner-1861-Ipposai-Yoshifuji.png,
Sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...
wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama by Utagawa Yoshifuji, 1861 File:Utagawa Yoshitora (1860) English Couple (crop).jpg, Utagawa Yoshitora (1860) English Couple


References

* Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print'', Oxford, Oxford University Press.
OCLC 5246796
* Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). ''Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints'', Amsterdam, Hotei.
OCLC 61666175
* Philadelphia Museum of Art, ''Foreigners in Japan, Yokohama and Related Woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art'', Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1972. * Rijksmuseum, ''The Age of Yoshitoshi, Japanese Prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods, Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Kamigata prints'', Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1990. * Yonemura, Ann, ''Yokohama, Prints from Nineteenth-century Japan'', Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1990.


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at the Library of Congress, including examples of Yokohama-e {{Ukiyo-e artists Ukiyo-e genres Yokohama