Picture of the Waterfront at Yokohama | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd month, 1860

Medium: Ukiyo-e: Polychrome woodblock print, triptych
Dimensions: sheet (right): 14 1/2 × 10 in. (36.83 × 25.4 cm)
sheet (center): 15 × 10 in. (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
sheet (left): 15 × 10 in. (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
Accession Number: 1967.64.80a-c
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Ann Yonemura, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990), 38, 39–49 (Comp. cit.), 50–51, 52–57 (Comp. cit.), no. 2, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Censor’s seal mark: Saru san aratame 申三改 (3rd month 1860, year of the monkey) (round, relief, center left of L alongside with the signature, lower left of C above the signature, & lower right of R, alongside with the signature)\r\nPublisher’s seal mark: Dai 大 (Daikoku-ya Kinjirō 大黒屋金次郎) (hexagon, lower centre of L & lower right of R)\r\n

Inscriptions

Yokohama Kaigan Zue 横濱海岸圖會 (upper edge of C)\r\nNames of places in the yellow boxes (from the left towards the right)\r\nL: 楊波; 臺補 (unreadable, in the upper right)\r\nC: Dō go-chōme 同五丁目; Dō yon-chōme 同四丁目; Dō san-chōme 同三丁目; Dō ni-chōme同弐丁目; Yoshiwara rō 吉原廊\r\nR: Honchō icchōme 本町壱丁目; Benzaiten 辯才天; Ban’ya 番屋; Kare machiya 枯町屋 \r\n\r\nNames of places in the red boxes (from the left towards the right)\r\nL: Kazusa 上總; Awa 安房; Honmaki 本牧?; Jūniten 十二天 (these four are in the upper left); Dai no chaya (?) 臺ノ茶屋; Miya no kagan watashi-bune 宮ノ河岸渡船 (these two are in the lower left)\r\nC: Hatoba 波戸場; Shibai 芝居\r\nR: Kōsatsu 高札; San no i 三の井; Susuki no mori 芒ノ森 \r\n

Signed

“Ki-sai Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Ki-sai Hiroshige”) 喜斎廣重画 (center left of L & lower right of R)
“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (lower left of C)

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