Japan: Amerikakoku ('America'), woodblock print showing the American consul in Edo / Tokyo, Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1867

Japanese woodblock print showing the American consul with his wife and a colleague at the American consulate in Tokyo.

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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