People of the Five Nations Drinking and Eating (Gokakoku jinbutsu dontaku no zu)
Utagawa Yoshitora Japanese
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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.
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