Lot Essay
The first steam railway in Japan was built at Kobe by Mr. Smith, an English engineer. The artist has copied an earlier English train of about 1830-1840
Details
The Kobe railway line, a printed fan, the leaf a woodcut view of the steam train and the port, with inscriptions, the verso with a directory, the background coloured pink and yellow, with bamboo sticks - 10in. (25cm.), circa 1874
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