Diary of Yokohama (Yokohama hanjōki 横濱繁昌記)
Diary of Yokohama is a Japanese woodblock-printed book by Yanagawa Shunsan, published by Bakuten Shooku, describing the port city of Yokohama in the 1860s for a Japanese readership. Its pictures are flat, pale-toned prints: one shows Western sailing ships with tall masts and smoke moored in a bay beside stone quays, and the other shows a coastline map with a pale blue sea and grey land. A designer might take the calm layered planes of blue and grey and the simple outlined ship forms as a restrained graphic vocabulary.
