Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu.

1865

1 print : woodcut, with watercolour ; image 35.5 x 48 cm

Print bears lettering in Japanese script

The picture shows westerners (probably English, American or Dutch) taking tea. Westerners were first admitted to Japan in 1853, and prints like this were issued for the Japanese market to satisfy curiosity about visitors who were all the more strange for their elaborate tea-ceremony

Wellcome Collection 25449i