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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 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.

References

  1. ^ "Isshinsai Yoshikata | Big Elephants Being Attacked | Japan | Edo period (1615–1868)". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  • 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.