Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaikō kenbunshi 横浜開港見聞誌) : [volume 1]

Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873 · 1862 · 15 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed volume from 1862 by Utagawa Sadahide, recording the newly opened port of Yokohama for a domestic readership. The pages show a series of paired panoramic street scenes with carefully drawn crowds, shopfronts and foreign residents, with explanatory inscriptions set in the margins. A designer could take from them the dense, observational layout of town views and the clean outline line-work of a narrow street perspective.

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

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