Yokohama's Memory4 Yokohama in 1860

Yokohama's Memory4 [Yokohama in 1860]

Yokohama Ukiyo-e
Gountei Sadahide [Tokaido Famous Place of Yokohama Scenic in 1860 (1860), 8 horizontal sheets, Koizumi Sculpture Kane　

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On July 1, 1859 (June 2, 1859), Yokohama opened in accordance with the agreement of the Osamu Trade Treaty with the United States, the Netherlands, Russia, U.K. and France concluded the previous year. Yokohama's MemoryVol.4 introduces landscape paintings depicting Yokohama in the following year (1860) like panoramic photographs.
"Yokohama Scenic Views of Tokaido Famous Places in Yokohama" is a detailed bird's-eye view of Yokohama Port (Yokohama 1) which crosses Noge from Shibamura (currently Sengencho, Nishi-ku) at the entrance of Yokohama way, across Yoshidabashi Bridge, through to Honmoku.
Gesshin Saito, the creator of the Edo Famous Zoukai, wrote Yokohama in 1860 as follows.

○I have a license for foreign trade last summer. In the middle of the spring of this year, the city of Tobe opened a passage by breaking down the mountain of Tobe in the middle of this spring, and averages the rice fields with this soil. In the mountains of Masutoku-in, the old trees with crossovers were cut down, and the old trees were cut down. (The sections of "Shinsei Takee Chronology", "1860", Heibonsha Orient Bunko)

The artist, Gountei Sadahide, was regarded as a leading figure in Yokohama Ukiyo-e, and at a Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History exhibition held last year, he was described as an "employer" with the accuracy of his description. In addition to ukiyo-e, Sadahide has also written prints such as "Yokohama Souvenir" and "Yokohama Kaiko Kankan" as a guide mainly based on drawings.