Catalog record · 目録番号 105642
View of Nihonbashi in Tokyo (Tōkyō Nihonbashi no kei)
Catalog note / 解説
This woodblock print celebrates the range of vehicles to be seen on the streets of Tokyo in 1870. Many had been introduced from the West and were viewed as symbols of Japan's transformation and modernisation under nthe slogan 'Civilisation and Enlightenment'. Many of the people depicted are wearing Japanese dress, but some of the men have adopted buttoned coats, trousers and hats. Each mode of transport is identified by a red cartouche; they range from the ‘person-powered car’, or rickshaw, in the central foreground, to the ‘double-decker horse-drawn carriage’ to the left. Materials: Woodblock print on paper
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 1870 · vam
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