Tsukiji kaigunsho,1877,Hiroshige Utagawa,Japanese,Photo,hot air balloon,crowd

Title: Tsukiji kaigunsho...
Title Translation: Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji.
Creator(s): Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1842?-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: Japan : Hayashi Kichizo, 1877 Oct. 5.
Summary: Japanese triptych print showing foreigners gathered around a hot air balloon surrounded by a crowd of spectators.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signature: Hiroshige ga.
Similar triptych print reproduced in Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan by Ann Yonemura, 1990, no. 82 (pp. 186-187) is entitled Tsukiji Kaifunsho Sorenjo ni oite fusen otameshi no zu.
Seal date: Meiji 10/5/1877.
Triptych, one mount.
Dimensions are approximate for each section of triptych.
Some worm damage on right panel.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of left panel: BCL [Bella C. Landauer ownership stamp]. Inscription to right of publisher block: (25 sen) [price block].
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Originally collected by Bella C. Landauer.
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
Yonemura no. 82 is similar but not identical and reversed with more complete title use?
Subjects:
Balloon ascensions--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880.
Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1870-1880.
Triptychs--Japanese--Color--1870-1880.
Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1870-1880.
Bookmark /2002700172/
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