Edo: in the centre is a large mixed-style building planned as a hotel and residence for visiting foreigners; in the foreground is the Edo townscape in highly conventional form. Colour woodcut, 1869.

Date:
1869
Reference:
37545i
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Assorted foreigners, strangely represented, appear in this scene of activity along the city's main maritime quay; especially the stylized depiction of foreigners in the top left and the Union Jack flying from the temporary residence of an 'english worthy'

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1869.

Physical description

2 prints : woodcuts, printed in colours

Lettering

Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title

Notes

View of Tsukji and Jeppōsu

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37545i

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