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拍品專文
For an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art see Julia Meech-Pekarik, The World of the Meiji Print (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1986), pl. 9.
Huge buildings made of stone were endlessly fascinating to the Japanese. Yokohama artists used back issues of the weekly London Illustrated News, available locally through Jardine Matheson and Company, as a primary reference source for the exotic architecture of foreign cities. In this 1862 triptych Sadahide evokes a splendidly dramatic view of Americans sending off trading ships from the jetties in San Francisco, where the Japanese embassy had landed in March, 1860; two goats and a dog are thrown in for good measure. Despite the element of fanciful glamour in Sadahide's prints, he was surprisingly accurate in the matter of ladies' costume. The wide crinoline hoop skirts are proper for their period.
Huge buildings made of stone were endlessly fascinating to the Japanese. Yokohama artists used back issues of the weekly London Illustrated News, available locally through Jardine Matheson and Company, as a primary reference source for the exotic architecture of foreign cities. In this 1862 triptych Sadahide evokes a splendidly dramatic view of Americans sending off trading ships from the jetties in San Francisco, where the Japanese embassy had landed in March, 1860; two goats and a dog are thrown in for good measure. Despite the element of fanciful glamour in Sadahide's prints, he was surprisingly accurate in the matter of ladies' costume. The wide crinoline hoop skirts are proper for their period.