Japan: Gokakoku Jinbutsu - Dontaku No Zu ('People of Five Nations - Sunday'), Yokohama Harbour, woodblock print (Tryptych, centre panel), Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1861

Japanese triptych print shows the interior of a foreign settlement house with several women and men enjoying a tea party, and a view of ships in the harbor in the background, Yokohama, Japan.

Utagawa Yoshitora was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. He was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e).

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