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FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Utagawa Yoshikazu (active circa 1848-1863)
Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904)
Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo (1830-1866)
Ipposai Yoshifuji (1828-1887)
Utagawa Yoshifusa (active circa 1837-1860)
Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873)
Utagawa Yoshitora (active circa 1836-1887)
Utagawa Kunihisa II (1832-1891)
Utagawa, Yoshimori (1830-1884)
Thirteen woodblock prints depicting foreigners comprising:

Yokohama kenbutsu zue [Sights in Yokohama], signed Issen Yoshikazu ga, 11th month 1860, inscriptions: Shashinkyo [Photographic mirror], Tokei shashin amerika [Picture of an American clock]

Oranda [Dutch couple], signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku, published by Fujiokaya Keijiro, 1st month 1861

Hakurai daizo no zu [Newly Imported Great Elephant], signed Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo ga, 2nd month 1863

Roshiajin aifujin [A Russian with his affectionate wife], signed Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo ga, 1860

Yokohama homare no shobuzuke [A Yokohama match of honor], a sumo wrestler defeating a foreigner, signed Ipposai Yoshifuji ga, 2nd month 1861

Igirisujin [Englishman], an Englishman holding a rifle with bayonet, signed Ipposai Yoshifusa ga, published by Yamamotoya Eikyudo, 1860

Yokohama Eisho yuko [English merchants taking a stroll on a rest day in Yokohama], the right-hand sheet of a triptych, signed Gountei Sadahide ga, circa 1861

A Russian and some Chinese, from the series Gokakoku jinbutsu zue [Picture of People of Five Nations], signed Gountei Sadahide ga, published by Daikokuya Kinnosuke, Kinjiro, 1st month 1861

An English military officer on horseback, from the series Gaikoku jinbutsu ga [Pictures of People from Foreign Lands], signed Yoshitora ga, circa 1861

Amerika [American], signed Yoshitora ga, 1st month 1861

Oranda [Dutch], signed Yoshitora ga, 2nd month 1861

English and Chinese, from the series Gokakoku no uchi [Among the Five Nations], signed Kunihisa ga, published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshodo), 10th month 1861

Roshiya [Russian], from the series Toto meisho Takanawa [Famous Places of the Eastern Capital: Takanawa], signed Ikkosai Yoshimori ga, 1861


All oban tate-e (each approx. 36.7 x 24.8cm.)
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For another impression of the third in the collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum go to http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/316551.
For another impression of the fifth and eleventh in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, go to www.metmuseum.org, accession number 2007.49.253 and 2007.49.203 respectively.
For another impression of the sixth, and for the complete triptych of the seventh in the collection of the British Museum, go to www.britishmuseum.org, museum numbers 1946,0413,0.11 and 1948,0410,0.116.1-3 respectively.
For another impression of the tenth in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to www.mfa.org, accession number 11.30415.

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