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Yokohama's Memory3 Children in Yokohama

Last updated February 15, 2024

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Yokohama's Memory3 [Children in Yokohama]
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Yokohama's Memory Vol.3 is.
[Children in Yokohama] We have picked up images with the theme of the theme.

Margaret-Rose, an American who came to Japan shortly after the opening of the port and spent many years in Yokohama, in his book "The Grasssing of the Old Japanese" (Yurindo, 1992), in addition to customs such as carp streamers and Hina Matsuri, as well as children's play with wings and kite flying. "The boys sing," blow the wind, go up the kites, "but the girls sing," The wind is quiet, don't blow off the wings." It looks comfortable to live. "

Wagman, known as the author of the satire manga magazine The Japan Punch, is a correspondent to The Illustrated London News, sketching and sending reports on the New Year's scenery in Yokohama.

How did the Japanese observe foreign children's appearance of Japanese children who become foreign hands? Painters, journalists at the time drew the children who were turning in Ukiyo-e Yokohama Ukiyo-e, and in the guidebook `` Yokohama Port Opening Observation Magazine '' representing the opening period, `` Ijinno Elementary School Children's Play No. 1 '', In addition to drawing two figures entitled "Children's Play No. 2", and in the text, the child's "Perhaps no children in any country."

Vol.3 also features a nanny parasol pose from "Yokohama Photography" taken for the purpose of introducing Japan, as well as W.M.Strachan & Co., a British trading company as a symbol of Yokohama, a base for overseas trade and a symbol of Yokohama. I chose the trademark.

In addition, we will deliver illustrations of Chinese, who accounted for the overwhelming majority of people living in foreign settlements and their children playing, Yokohama postcards depicting children gathering in Yokohama Kamonyama Park, and Sensha bills depicting children who were affected by the Kanto Earthquake.

Children from Yokohama 1
Yokohama UkiyoeIllustration
Foreign men and women's playJapanese Game
Yoshikazu Ichikawa
[Foreign Men and Children's Play]
(1860, Jinpachi Maruya)
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【Japanese Game of
battledore and shuttlecock
in the streets of Yokohama】
(The Illustlated London News,
July 15, 1865 (Received)
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Children from Yokohama 2
IllustrationYokohama Photograph
A figure of collecting wives and children of different trading houses.A babysitter

Hashimoto Tamaransai
[Figure of gathering wives and children of different trading houses and reading letters]
(4th edition of "Yokohama Port Opening Guide Magazine,"

1865 (1865);
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[Billing]
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3 Children from Yokohama
TrademarkIllustration
W.M.STRACHAN & Co.A part of Chinese street
【W.M.STRACHAN&Co.】
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【A part of Chinese street】

("Yokohama Famous Places, Customs Bulletin No. 257,

Toyodo, 1902.
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4 Children from Yokohama
Yokohama picture postcardSensha bills
Statue of Kamon, Kamonyama Park, YokohamaAn outdoor professor
Yokohama Kamonyama Park
Ii Kamonyama Park at Yokohama]
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[Professor in the field]
("Yokohama Nasatsuhama Rishiren Previous Competition, collected)
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