People of the Five Nations Drinking and Eating (Gokakoku jinbutsu dontaku no zu)
Publishers in Edo (present-day Tokyo) immediately recognized local interest in nearby Yokohama’s newly opened port, and began releasing prints featuring foreigners. Popular subjects included the so-called black ships, or Western vessels, assembled on the open sea, shops on the settlement streets, and the customs and clothing of foreign men and women. The Japanese were eager to buy these prints, despite only thirty-four Western merchants living in Yokohama in 1860, and altogether some two hundred Western residents by about 1862.
Artwork Details
- 歌川芳虎画 『五箇国人物 呑飥之図』
- Title: People of the Five Nations Drinking and Eating (Gokakoku jinbutsu dontaku no zu)
- Artist: Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active ca. 1850–80)
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 1861, 10th month
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 14 x 28 1/2 in. (35.6 x 72.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959
- Object Number: JP3248
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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