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Photo, Print, Drawing Yokohama kōeki seiyōjin nimotsu unsō no zu

[ digital file from original of 94c ]

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[ digital file from original of 94b ]
[ digital file from original of 94a ]
[ color film transparency of 94c, left section ]
[ color film transparency of 94b, left-center section ]
[ color film copy transparency of 94b, left-center section ]
[ color film copy transparency of 94a, center section ]

About this Item

Title

  • Yokohama kōeki seiyōjin nimotsu unsō no zu

Translated Title

  • Western traders loading cargo in Yokohama

Summary

  • Japanese pentaptych print shows an American ship in the harbor at Yokohama, Japan; small boats ferry cargo which is being carried up a gangplank contributing to the bustle of activity on the main deck.

Names

  • Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873, artist

Created / Published

  • Japan : [Yamaguchiya Tōbei], 1861.

Headings

  • -  Ships--American--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
  • -  Commerce--American--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
  • -  Shipping--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
  • -  Longshoremen--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
  • -  Transportation--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870

Format Headings

  • Pentaptychs--Japanese--1860-1870.
  • Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1860-1870.

Genre

  • Pentaptychs--Japanese--1860-1870
  • Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1860-1870

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga.
  • -  Seal date: Cock 6.
  • -  Pentaptych matted in separate sections: left (94c), left-center (94b), center (94a); right-center, and right sections missing.
  • -  Ōban size prints.
  • -  Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 52; 47623a (white label).
  • -  Earlier control number: 7710-13.
  • -  Caption label from exhibit "Floating World," Japan and the West, Artistic Cross-Fertilization section: Western Traders at Yokohama. For Japanese artists, the port city of Yokohama became a primary incubator for a new category of images that straddled convention and novelty. Although Yokohama prints have been widely maligned for not being up to the standards of Ukiyo-e, this image by Hashimoto Sadahide (1807-ca. 1878) has both technical and artistic strength. Bustle and change are implied by every rippling wave and the repeated lines of oars, stripes, planks, rigging, and pleats--punctuated by the wave crashing at the base of the ship. Reportedly, while Sadahide was sketching the scene, he dropped his brush in the water and borrowed a pencil from a foreigner to continue drawing.
  • -  Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 8 (p. 64)
  • -  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. 69, p. 131 (94a).
  • -  Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
  • -  Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
  • -  Meihi no hanga / Kimata Ryoji (five-panel version).
  • -  Exhibited: "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001 (94a).
  • -  Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., September 2024 - March 2026 (94c) (94b) (94a).

Medium

  • 1 print on hōsho paper (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36 x 24.5 cm (each block), 36.8 x 24.8 cm (each sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FP 2 - Chadbourne, no. 94 a, b, c

Source Collection

  • Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 74587 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.74587
  • ppmsca 74588 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.74588
  • ppmsca 78119 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.78119
  • cph 3g09995 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09995
  • cph 3g09985 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09985
  • cph 3g04588 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04588
  • cph 3g08538 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08538

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2002700230

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-74587 (digital file from original of 94c)
  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-74588 (digital file from original of 94b)
  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-78119 (digital file from original of 94a)
  • LC-USZC4-9995 (color film copy transparency of 94c, left section)
  • LC-USZC4-9985 (color film copy transparency of 94b, left-center section)
  • LC-USZC4-4588 (color film copy transparency of 94b, left-center section)
  • LC-USZC4-8538 (color film copy transparency of 94a, center section)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Access Advisory

  • Restricted access: Materials extremely fragile; Access to original object is controlled by the Division's policy of providing surrogates in preference to serving originals.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-74587 (digital file from original of 94c) LC-DIG-ppmsca-74588 (digital file from original of 94b) LC-DIG-ppmsca-78119 (digital file from original of 94a) LC-USZC4-9995 (color film copy transparency of 94c, left section) LC-USZC4-9985 (color film copy transparency of 94b, left-center section) LC-USZC4-4588 (color film copy transparency of 94b, left-center section) LC-USZC4-8538 (color film copy transparency of 94a, center section)
  • Call Number: FP 2 - Chadbourne, no. 94 a, b, c
  • Access Advisory: ["Restricted access: Materials extremely fragile; Access to original object is controlled by the Division's policy of providing surrogates in preference to serving originals."]

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Utagawa, Sadahide, Artist. Yokohama Kōeki Seiyōjin Nimotsu Unsō No Zu. Japan Yokohama, 1861. [Japan: Yamaguchiya Tōbei] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2002700055/.

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Utagawa, S. (1861) Yokohama Kōeki Seiyōjin Nimotsu Unsō No Zu. Japan Yokohama, 1861. [Japan: Yamaguchiya Tōbei] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2002700055/.

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Utagawa, Sadahide, Artist. Yokohama Kōeki Seiyōjin Nimotsu Unsō No Zu. [Japan: Yamaguchiya Tōbei] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2002700055/>.