Utagawa Yoshikazu (act. 1850s-70s)

Yokohama kembutsu zue (Pictures of sights in Yokohama)

Details

Utagawa Yoshikazu (act. 1850s-70s)
Yokohama kembutsu zue (Pictures of sights in Yokohama)
Featuring a framed photograph of an American woman, an American man with walking stick and smoking cigar and an American cuckoo clock decorated with a phoenix, signed Issen Yoshikazu ga--good impression and color, small stains toward edges, small repaired tear, pin holes
oban tate-e: 36.7 x 25.3cm.

Lot Essay

For another example see Allen Hockley, "Cameras, Photographs and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints," Impressions 23 (2001), p. 45. Impressions is the journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America.

More from AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS

View All