Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1990) by Ann Yonemura is a catalogue of an exhibition of 19th-century photographs and newspaper drawings and some 85 color prints of Yokohama and its first foreign residents, from 1859 to the 1870s. The interest is chiefly sociological rather than artistic.
Following its opening to trade with America and Europe in 1859 (after more than two centuries of Japanese isolation), foreigners from the five treaty nations--the U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands--filled Yokohama, transforming the rural fishing village into a bustling international port. These extraordinary, colorful woodblock prints capture the excitement--the harbor, the foreign peoples, and the technological wonders (from sewing machines to locomotives) that were introduced into Japan. Yonemura explores the prints in the context of the historical events that propelled Japan into the modern age. Published by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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