Yokohama's Memory4 Yokohama in 1860

Yokohama's Memory4 [Yokohama in 1860]

Yokohama Ukiyoe
Gomotei Sadahide [Tokaido Famous Scenic] 1860 (1860), 8 widths, Koizumi carving Kane　

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On July 1, 1859 (June 2, 1859), Yokohama opened a port in accordance with the agreement concluded in the previous year's Good Trade Treaty with the United States, the Netherlands, Russia, U.K. and France. Yokohama's MemoryVol.4 introduces landscape paintings depicting Yokohama in the following year (1860) like panoramic pictures.
The Tokaido Famous Village (now Sengencho, Nishi-ku), which is the entrance to Yokohama way, crosses Yoshidabashi Bridge, and it is a detailed bird's-eye view of Yokohama Meol 1.
Gesshin Saito, the master of "Edo Famous Places", wrote Yokohama in 1860 as follows.

○Last summer, I got a license for foreign trade. If you set up a place at the Yokohamamura Building in Nogeshinden, Bushu Kuraki-gun, Bushu, break down the mountain of Tobe in the same place, open a passage, and with this soil, On average, over 60,000 tsubo on the west side of the mountain, the old trees of the crossing of the mountain. (The sections of "Kenkei Takee Chronology" and "1860", Heibonsha Orient Bunko)

The artist Sadahide Gomotei Sadahide was regarded as a leading figure in Ukiyo-e Yokohama, and at a Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History exhibition last year, he was described as a "Sora Tobu Artist." In addition to Ukiyo-e, Sadahide has also written prints such as "Yokohama Souvenirs" and "Yokohama Port Opening Observation Magazine" as guidebooks mainly on drawings.