Prints are gifts of Ambassador William and Florence Leonhart, reproduced courtesy
of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2005 Visualizing Cultures |
In the back room, cooks prepare a large piece of meat. A stairway leads to a second floor, a rarity in early Yokohama...
...salesroom activities in this busy Western mercantile company.
Sadahide The Observer:
Mercantile Firm
Back room activities are separated from...
...“There were not more than half a dozen two-storied buildings in the foreign portion of the town,” wrote an eye-witness.
Western-style
horizontal writing is portrayed...
...in contrast to Japanese, which is written with a brush in vertical columns.
Leather bound books...
...frame a Japanese merchant of high status who oversees a transaction.
Hand gestures supplement a limited knowledge of each other’s languages.
An Indian servant
prepares duck...
A huge elephant picture decorates the wall behind a Chinese man who displays goods, presumably silk.
...while a laundress
washes clothes.
Yokohama Boomtown! © 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
A Project of Professors John W. Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa
Design and production by Ellen Sebring, Scott Shunk, and Andrew Burstein
Based on the catalogue of the 1990 exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan,
by Ann Yonemura. © 1990 Smithsonian Institution
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