'Nanking in China' 大清南京府市坊 - From "Collection of Scenic Places in Foreign Lands" - 1862 - Utagawa Yoshitora (act. ca. 1836-1887) - Japan - Late Edo period

Original woodblock print triptych - Utagawa Yoshitora (act. ca. 1836-1887) -"Nanking in China" Taisei Nankinfu shi bō 大清南京府市坊, From "Collection of Scenic Places in Foreign Lands" Bankoku meisho zukushi no uchi 万国名勝尽競之内 - Japan -1862(Bunkyu 2 period) \r
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See Harvard Art Museums: https: //harvardartmuseums. org/collections/object/320319\r
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The people in Nanjing are drawn. At the end of the Edo period, many foreigners came to Japan. \r
Therefore, many were drawn in Ukiyo-e. There were many ukiyo-e artists who drawn foreigners, and Yoshitora was one of them. This ukiyo-e has a repair in the place where it is torn. \r
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Utagawa Yoshitora is name ‘Yoshitorae'”芳虎画”in his signature. \r
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Some stains and toning, small holes. \r
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(memo) \r
He joined Utagawa school master Kuniyoshi’s studio and become one of the master’s students. \r
he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Ichi Mousai(一猛斎) ,Mousai(孟斎) ,Nishikicho. Euro(錦朝楼) ,as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name in his career. \r