Illustrations of What We Have Seen and Heard at Yokohama, a Newly Opened Port (Yokohama kaikō kenbun(mon)shi 横浜開港見聞誌) : [volume 5]

Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873 · 1862 · 16 pictures

A Japanese woodblock volume, volume 5 of an illustrated account of Yokohama, made by Utagawa Sadahide and published in 1862 for readers curious about the newly opened port. The pictures are rendered in fine black ink line on pale paper, with boxed panels and Japanese captions, and show foreign ships and figures alongside Japanese scenes. A designer might take their crowded linework, wave patterns and tightly framed scenes as a model for dense, narrative line illustration.

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

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