Foreigners Enjoying Themselves in the Gankirō, Utagawa Yoshikazu, ca. 1861

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Foreigners Enjoying Themselves in the Gankirō, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1861, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Image: 14 1/2 in. × 30 in. ( × cm), Prints, Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active ca. 1850–1870), When the port of Yokohama, about thirty miles southwest of Edo, opened to Westerners in 1859, near the end of the Edo period, ukiyo-e artists started illustrating the foreigners in Yokohama and creating imaginary scenes of foreign countries, known as Yokohama-e (Yokohama pictures

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