About this image...

Image Title: Yokohama Ijin Shokan No Zu, 1861

Creator: Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873, artist

Date: 1861.

Summary: Japanese triptych print shows Japanese women (geishas and courtesans) entertaining residents at a foreign settlement house in Yokohama, Japan.

Notes: Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 53 (p. 140-41)

Subjects: Courtesans--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Eating & drinking--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Entertainment--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Geishas--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Lodging houses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870

Original Media: Woodcut print

Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 » more info...

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