Yokohama-e

Yokohama-e (横浜絵, "Yokohama pictures") are Japanese woodblock prints depicting non–East Asian foreigners and scenes in the port city of Yokohama.

History

The port of Yokohama was opened to foreigners in 1859, and ukiyo-e artists, primarily of the Utagawa school, produced more than 800 different woodblock prints in response to a general curiosity about these strangers. The earliest known depictions of the genre are credited to Utagawa Kuniaki I, a pupil of Kunisada active until 1868. The production of yokohama-e ceased in the 1880s."

Artists

The most prolific artists working in this genre were Utagawa Yoshitora, Utagawa Yoshikazu, Utagawa Sadahide, Utagawa Yoshiiku, Utagawa Yoshimori, Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Hiroshige III, Utagawa Yoshitoyo, and Utagawa Yoshitomi.

Gallery

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  Woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora of a Frenchman at the Gankirō brothel, 1861
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  First steam train leaving Yokohama, triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II, 1872
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  Japanese print showing American naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785–1851) discovering that his work was eaten by a rat, unsigned
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  Sumo wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama by Utagawa Yoshifuji, 1861
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  Utagawa Yoshitora (1860) English Couple
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  Big Elephants Being Attacked, by Isshinsai Yoshikata, 2nd month, 1863
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  Never Seen Before: True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1860

References

• Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print, Oxford, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796
• Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, Hotei. ISBN 9789074822657; 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.
• Tůmová, Adéla (2022). "Japanese Modernization Prints Collection (Yokohama-e and Kaika-e) in the Náprstek Museum" (PDF). Annals of the Náprstek Museum. 43 (2): 107–131. doi:10.37520/anpm.2022.012. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

External links

• Japan and the West: Artistic Cross-Fertilization, at the Library of Congress, including examples of Yokohama-e