About this image...

Image Title: Yokohama Ijin Yashiki No Zu, 1861

Creator: Utagawa, Yoshikazu, active 1848-1863, artist

Date: 1861.

Summary: Japanese print shows a kitchen where food is being prepared and of adjoining rooms, in one room a man is getting a shave, in a foreign settlement house in Yokohama, Japan.

Notes: Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum, 1972, no. 84 (p. 30)

Subjects: Cookery--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Domestic life--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860-1870
Kitchens--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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