Yokohama-e

The port of Yokohama was opened to foreigners in 1859, and ukiyo-e artists, primarily of the Utagawa school, produced more than 800 different woodblock prints in response to a general curiosity about these strangers. The earliest known depictions of the genre are credited to Utagawa Kuniaki I, a pupil of Kunisada active until 1868. The production of yokohama-e ceased in the 1880s. "

The most prolific artists working in this genre were Utagawa Yoshitora, Utagawa Yoshikazu, Utagawa Sadahide, Utagawa Yoshiiku, Utagawa Yoshimori, Utagawa Hiroshige II, Utagawa Hiroshige III, Utagawa Yoshitoyo, and Utagawa Yoshitomi.

• Illustration — Woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora of a Frenchman at the Gankirō brothel, 1861 • Illustration — First steam train leaving Yokohama, triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II, 1872 • Illustration — Japanese print showing American naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785–1851) discovering that his work was eaten by a rat, unsigned • Illustration — Sumo wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama by Utagawa Yoshifuji, 1861 • Illustration — Utagawa Yoshitora (1860) English Couple • Illustration — Big Elephants Being Attacked, by Isshinsai Yoshikata, 2nd month, 1863 • Illustration — Never Seen Before: True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1860