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.

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.

The most prolific artists working in this genre were Utagawa Yoshitora, , Utagawa Sadahide, Utagawa Yoshiiku, , Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Hiroshige III, , and .

Gallery[]

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  Woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora of a Frenchman at the Gankirō brothel, 1861

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  First steam train leaving Yokohama, triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II, 1872

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  Japanese print showing American naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785-1851) discovering that his work was eaten by a rat, unsigned

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  Sumo wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama by , 1861

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  Utagawa Yoshitora (1860) English Couple

References[]

• 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.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yokohama-e.

• Japan and the West: Artistic Cross-Fertilization, at the Library of Congress, including examples of Yokohama-e