are
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 depicting non-
East Asian 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 T ...
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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, too ...
, produced more than 800 different
woodblock prints 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. Howeve ...
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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 ...
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Utagawa Yoshimori,
Utagawa Hiroshige II,
Utagawa Hiroshige III,
Utagawa Yoshitoyo, and
Utagawa Yoshitomi.
Gallery
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. Howeve ...
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, 1872
File:John James Audubon - Japanese woodcut.jpg, Japanese print showing American naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785-1851) discovering that his work was eaten by a rat, unsigned
File:Yokohama-Sumo-Wrestler-Defeating-a-Foreigner-1861-Ipposai-Yoshifuji.png, Sumo 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.
External links
at the Library of Congress, including examples of Yokohama-e
{{Ukiyo-e artists
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Yokohama