Yokohama. Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear on lower edge of front panel.. 198 pp. Illus. with 85 color plates, 15 b/w figures and additional color and b/w reproductions. Folio. Publisher's errata laid in of missing image. Bibliography. Chronology. List of artists. An important contribution to the study of Japanese folk and popular art, this is a descriptive catalogue of 85 items from a traveling exhibition of Yokohama prints (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), a genre of ukiyo-e that flourished from 1859 to the 1870's, that "were produced to satisfy Japanese curiosity about foreigners and foreign cultures at a time when some foreigners arrived at Yokohama, an international port newly opened after over two hundred years of national seclusion," (Keiko Suzuki, Asian Folklore Studies 1992, p 148).