Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaikō kenbunshi 横浜開港見聞誌) : [volume 2]

Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873 · 1862 · 17 pictures

Observations on the Opening of Yokohama is a Japanese woodblock-printed volume from 1862 by the artist Utagawa Sadahide, recording the port town of Yokohama after it opened to foreign trade. The pictures show foreign residents, merchants and Japanese townsfolk in interiors, streets, the waterfront and aboard steamships. For a designer, the spreads offer a clear record of mid-nineteenth-century Japanese print composition, with framed panels, dense ink line, and text blocks set beside the scenes.

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

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