Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV 10000037 USNM Ethnology Catalog 398578
- Artist
- Inoue, Tankei, 1864-1889
- Artist
- Inoue, Tankei, 1864-1889
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- MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps
- Extent
- 1 Print (color woodblock, 35.75 x 19.75 inches mounted on 38 x 21.5 inches )
- Date
- 1884
- Container
- Map-folder 8, Item 4
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Graphic Materials
- Prints
- Collection Citation
- MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- The print is divided into two sections: the upper portion depicts Takasaki City (Gunma Prefecture) with its dwellings, street scenes, railroad station, and a train approaching the city; the lower portion shows a departing train at the Ueno station with decorative flag poles and viewers against the background of the Ueno park filled with cherry blossoms. An English caption added to the print indicates that the scenes show the opening ceremony of the railway connecting Ueno (Tokyo) and Takasaki, one of the most important silk fabric centers. Published by Matsuki Heikichi, Tokyo.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1673988000773-1673988001370-1
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