About this image...

Image Title: Yokohama Kenbutsu Zue, 1860

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

Date: 1860.

Summary: Japanese print shows a foreign visitor standing outside a building in Yokohama, Japan. He is looking up and appears to be thinking, his thoughts depicted on the right, outside the space occupied by him, as a framed bust portrait of a woman, possibly his wife, and a clock, possibly a reference to the time that they have been apart.

Subjects: Clocks & watches--1860
Foreign visitors--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860
Mental states--1860
Portrait paintings--1860
Spouses--Japan--Yokohama-shi--1860

Original Media: Woodcut print

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

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