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

  • Utagawa, Yoshikazu, active 1848-1863.
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1865
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25449i
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view Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu.

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Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1865

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

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Print bears lettering in Japanese script

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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

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Wellcome Collection 25449i

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