UTAGAWA SADAHIDE (1807-1873) UTAGAWA YOSHITORA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1850–80), Two Yokohama Prints

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Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873)
Utagawa Yoshitora (active circa 1850–80)
Two Yokohama prints
Two prints depicting foreigners:

1. View of the trading floor in a foreign building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan uriba no zu), each sheet signed Gountei Sadahide ga, published by Sanoya Kihei, 1861
2. Foreigners Enjoying a Party (Gaikokujin yukyo no zu), each sheet signed Yoshitora ga, published by Izumiya Ichibei, 1861
Both vertical oban triptychs (each sheet approx. 36.5 x 25 cm.)

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The first triptych depicts in lively detail the interior of a trader's house with two Western clerks, a Chinese man holding up a length of cloth and a butcher cutting meat.

For another impression of the first and second in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, go to:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/55259
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/73488