Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 105642

View of Nihonbashi in Tokyo (Tōkyō Nihonbashi no kei)

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kuniteru歌川国輝
Date / 年代: 1870
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / vam
Digital record / 画像記録: 2000 × 1010 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Victoria and Albert Museum
Published by / 公開者: 紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利: Commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Catalog note / 解説

This woodblock print celebrates the range of vehicles to be seen on the streets of Tokyo in 1870. Many had been introduced from the West and were viewed as symbols of Japan's transformation and modernisation under nthe slogan 'Civilisation and Enlightenment'. Many of the people depicted are wearing Japanese dress, but some of the men have adopted buttoned coats, trousers and hats. Each mode of transport is identified by a red cartouche; they range from the ‘person-powered car’, or rickshaw, in the central foreground, to the ‘double-decker horse-drawn carriage’ to the left. Materials: Woodblock print on paper

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