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Original wallpaper & book cover

Last Updated January 15, 2024

We created wallpaper and book cover (paperback size) by arranging image data such as Yokohama Ukiyo-e and postcards owned by Municipal Central Library, which are published in the digital archive "Yokohama's Memory."
Why don't you incorporate the uniqueness of Yokohama into your home or workplace?

4 types are available according to the screen size. Please use the one that matches the screen size of your computer.

[If you are using Windows]
Right-click on the image and select "Settings to Background".
[People using Mac]
Press the Ctrl key and click on the image, and when the menu appears, select Use Image as a desktop picture.

*Please refrain from reprinting, redistribution, modification, etc. (secondary use) wallpaper data.

People during the opening of the port of tub From Yokohama Ukiyo-e during the civilization period, various people have been taken out.

People during the opening of port

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It is a wallpaper of the ukiyo-e "Kanagawa vapor wheel railway complete map" (1870) by Kuniki Itsusai of the stratum of the Kanagawa vapor wheel railway.

Overview of Kanagawa Steam Railway

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Look at the two ukiyo-e paintings of Fuji through the tub window.

Fuji through the window

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→ Ukiyo-e used can be viewed on the digital archive "Yokohama's Memory" (outside site).
"Fuji Thirty-six Views Musashi Honmoku no Hana" (outside site) Hiroshige (first generation) April 1858
"Tokaido Kami Nagawa" (outside site) Yoshitora Fumihisa April 3rd

The animals of tubular ukiyo-e
We collected animal figures from ukiyo-e during the civilization period.

Ukiyo-e animals

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1280 x 1024 pixels (image: 83KB)
1280 x 800 pixels (image: 39KB)
1024 x 768 pixels (image: 30KB)

We have two types of paperback sizes.

[How to make]
How to make a book cover
(1) [Download] Download the PDF file from your computer and save it to your computer.(2) Please print the downloaded PDF file in color (equally) on A4 paper.(3) Prepare a book to cover and fold the top and bottom evenly inside to match the size of the book.

Book cover creation procedure (photos of paper printed in color)


Book cover creation procedure (photos comparing the size with the book)


(4) Place the book in the middle of the paper and fold the left and right sides evenly inside according to the size.Complete!

Book cover creation procedure (photo with a book placed in the middle of the paper)

Book cover creation procedure

Completed book cover


*Please refrain from reprinting, redistribution, modification, etc. (secondary use) of book cover data.

Fuji through the tub window [Download (PDF: 186KB)]
Look at the two ukiyo-e through the window.

Fuji through the window

Completed book cover (Fuji through window)
*Completed figure *


Animals of tubular ukiyo-e [Download (PDF: 187KB)]
We collected animal figures from ukiyo-e during the civilization period.

Ukiyo-e animals

Completion of book cover (Ukiyo-e animals)
*Completed figure *


All images used are posted on the library's digital archive "Yokohama's Memory" (external site).

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Inquiries to this page

Board of Education Secretariat Chuo-toshokan Research Materials Division

Telephone: 045-262-7336

Telephone: 045-262-7336

Fax: 045-262-0054

Email address: ky-libkocho-c@city.yokohama.lg.jp

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