Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaikō kenbunshi 横浜開港見聞誌) : [volume 3]

Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873 · 1862 · 18 pictures

Observations on the Opening of Yokohama is a Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated volume from 1862 by the ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Sadahide, documenting the new treaty port of Yokohama for a general readership. Its pages are paired spreads of black-line genre scenes with columns of Japanese text, and a designer could take their clean contour line, economical hatching, and crowded interior compositions as models for reportage-style illustration.

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

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