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Evening Scene of Chinamen and Japanese at Honcho, from a series of untitled small perspective pictures

Evening Scene of Chinamen and Japanese at Honcho, from a series of untitled small perspective pictures

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Utagawa Toyoharu

Although the title suggests the participants are Chinamen, prints that detailed elaborate foreign processions became widely used during the Edo period to depict all non-Japanese, including the Koreans, Dutch, and Ryukuans, who maintained diplomatic relations with Japan. Similar to another larger depiction of this subject by Toyoharu, this print does not represent an actual procession of foreigners but rather Japanese in Korean costume commemorating a previous Korean mission. These spectacles became popular parts of grand public festivals held in Edo each year.
Artist
Utagawa Toyoharu
(Japanese, 1735 - 1814)
Title
Evening Scene of Chinamen and Japanese at Honcho, from a series of untitled small perspective pictures
Date
ca. 1770
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
106 x 156 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.3076
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 75, no. 28

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/2/2009–11/26/2009
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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