Interior of Iwakame House, Yokohama Minatosaki licensed pleasure district: Western visitors are shown being entertained in a back room. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1860.

  • Utagawa, Yoshikazu, active 1848-1863.
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1860
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567167i
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view Interior of Iwakame House, Yokohama Minatosaki licensed pleasure district: Western visitors are shown being entertained in a back room. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1860.

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Interior of Iwakame House, Yokohama Minatosaki licensed pleasure district: Western visitors are shown being entertained in a back room. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1860. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The licensed pleasure district in Yokohama was largely built for the entertainment of Western foreigners

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Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1860.

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1 print in three parts : woodcut, printed in colours

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Ichijusai Yoshikazu-ga Lettering in Japanese Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title Pencil inscription reads 'Interior of Gankiro'. Gankiro was a well-known house of prostitution in Yokohama

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Wellcome Collection 567167i

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