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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, published in the digital archive "Yokohama's Memory".
Why don't you incorporate Yokohama's uniqueness into your home or workplace?

Four types of screen sizes are available. Please use the one that matches the screen size of your computer.

[Windows users]
Right-click on the image and select "Settings to Background".
[For Mac users]
Press the Ctrl key and click on the image, and when the menu appears, select "Use Image as Desktop Picture" when the menu appears.

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

We have taken out various figures from Yokohama Ukiyo-e during the civilization period of the opening of the port.

People at the opening of the port

1366×768 pixels (image: 91KB)
1280 x 1024 pixels (image: 82KB)
1280 x 800 pixels (image: 66KB)
1024 x 768 pixels (image: 31KB)

This is the wallpaper of the Ukiyo-e "Kanagawa Vapor Vehicle Railway Nozen Map" (1870) by Kuniki Ichiyosai.

Figure of Kanagawa vaporized railway

1366 x 768 pixels (image: 231KB)
1280 x 1024 pixels (image: 197KB)
1280 x 800 pixels (image: 98KB)
1024 x 768 pixels (image: 67KB)

Please look at the two ukiyo-e paintings of Fuji through the window.

Fuji through the window

1366 x 768 pixels (image: 110KB)
1280 x 1024 pixels (image: 143KB)
1280 x 800 pixels (image: 91KB)
1024 x 768 pixels (image: 83KB)

→ The ukiyo-e used can be viewed on the digital archive "Yokohama's Memory" (external site).
"Thirty-six Views of Fuji, Musashi Honmaki no Hana" (external site) Hiroshige (first generation) April 1858
"Tokaido Shin Nagawa" (outside site) Fumihisa Yoshitora April 2003

Shellfish of Ukiyo-e
A collection of animals from Ukiyo-e during the civilization period.

Ukiyo-e animals

1366 x 768 pixels (image: 86KB)
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 inward to match the size of the book.

Book cover preparation procedure (photo of colored paper)


Book cover creation procedure (photo comparing size with books)


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

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

Book Cover Creation Procedure

Book cover completed


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

Tilts Fuji through the window [Download (PDF: 186KB)]
Please look at the two Ukiyo-e through the window.

Fuji through the window

Book cover completed drawing (Fuji through the window)
*Completed diagram*


Tilted Ukiyo-e animals [Download (PDF: 187KB)]
A collection of animals from Ukiyo-e during the civilization period.

Ukiyo-e animals

Book cover completed drawing (Ukiyo-e animal zukushi)
*Completed diagram*


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

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For inquiries to this page

Board of Education Secretariat Chuo-toshokan Research Materials Division

Phone: 045-262-7336

Phone: 045-262-7336

Fax: 045-262-0054

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

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