Yokohama-e explained
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 ceased in the 1880s.
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
- Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print, Oxford, Oxford University Press. ; OCLC 5246796
- Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, Hotei. ; 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 . Japanese Modernization Prints Collection (Yokohama-e and Kaika-e) in the Náprstek Museum . Annals of the Náprstek Museum . 2022 . 43 . 2 . 107–131 . 10.37520/anpm.2022.012 . 20 August 2023.
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