Yokohama-e

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Yoshitora: American on horseback

As Yokohama-e ( Japanese 横浜絵 ), so Yokohama images are Japanese Woodblock referred representing foreigners since the opening of Japan came in 1854 into the country, where Yokohama has been assigned as a residence.

overview

With the Treaty of Kanagawa between the USA and Japan in 1854, the 200-year-old isolation of Japan ( Sakoku ) was ended. Further contracts followed with the USA, then also with Great Britain , France , the Netherlands and Russia . In 1859 the ports of Yokohama , Nagasaki, and Hakodate were opened to treaty countries' access. All contracts concluded on the Japanese side were not only called unequal ( unequal contracts ), they were: That is, the Japanese by no means had the same rights in the contracting countries as they had in Japan, such as their own jurisdiction. In 1860 a small Prussian fleet reached Edo with the Prussian East Asia Expedition . After long negotiations, Prussia also received a treaty in January 1861 .

During these years, there have been numerous incidents between Japanese and foreigners in Japan. On the other hand, the Japanese found the foreigners in their strange clothes, their wives, children and their way of living interesting. This inspired the masters of the woodcut to produce and distribute pictures of the foreigners in Yokohama, which were later called Yokohama pictures. In this area, mainly students of Utagawa Kuniyoshi were active, who adopted the yoshi from their teacher and added another character. In addition to students from Kuniyoshi, other artists from the numerous Utagawa School were also active in a similar manner. The following list gives an overview:

Foreigners in Yokohama

  • Yoshikazu: French

  • Yoshitora: English

  • Yoshitomi: Americans

  • Yoshifuji: Russians

  • Yoshiiku: French

  • Yoshiiku: Dutch

  • Yoshitora: Chinese.

Scenes in Yokohama

  • Yoshikazu: Sewing, 1864

  • Yoshikazu: Cooking, 1864

  • Yoshikazu: Drinking, 1864

  • Yoshikazu: Evening, 1864

  • Shigekiyo: Bluff from Yokohama

  • Sadahide: Port picture, 1869

  • Sadahide: Parade in Yokohama, 1865

Remarks

  1. ↑ Not all of them had their due Utagawa name , Sadahide signed as Gountei Sadahide, Yoshiiku as Ochiai Yosjiiku.
  2. ↑ Marked as iki-utsushi ( 生 寫 ), meaning “drawn according to a living model”.
  3. ↑ From the series "Eight Views of Yokahama in Musashi Province " ( 武 州 横 浜 八景 , Bushū Yokohama hakkei ). This is a variant of the " Eight Views of Lake Biwa "

literature

  • Julia Meech-Pekarik: The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization . Weatherhill, Trumbull 1987, ISBN 0-8348-0209-0 ,
  • Fukuda, Kazuhiko: Nihon no sekimatsu . Yomiuri Shimbun, 1987. ISBN 4-643-87031-1 .