Ukiyo-e 56, UY-3, Handbag - Yoshitora, America Balloon Ascension
Ukiyo-e Bag - America Balloon Ascension.
Ukiyo-e (Japanese, meaning "Pictures of the Floating World"). Ukiyo-e depicts and records the life of Japanese people in the Edo period. It represents Japanese art of 17-19 centuries.
This triptych prints, designed by Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎), depicts a view of a balloon ascension, a scene of the American consul and several women, wearing colorful bell-shaped skirts, watching the Japanese navy department test balloon aircraft in front of the American consulate in Tokyo, Japan.
Utagawa Yoshitora was a prolific woodblock print designer, especially known for his designs of foreigners-a genre of print known as Yokohama-e, named for Yokohama port which opened to the West in 1859.
Utagawa Yoshitora's prints show the Japanese's views on foreigners visiting Japan during this period and their observations of Westerners' lives in Japan.
Triptych
Created in 1867
Artist: Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎; Japanese, active circa 1850-1880)
Art inspires fashion - Exotic style fashion.
Ukiyo-e (Japanese, meaning "Pictures of the Floating World"). Ukiyo-e depicts and records the life of Japanese people in the Edo period. It represents Japanese art of 17-19 centuries.
America, Balloon Ascension
「亜米利加国, Amerikakoku」This triptych prints, designed by Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎), depicts a view of a balloon ascension, a scene of the American consul and several women, wearing colorful bell-shaped skirts, watching the Japanese navy department test balloon aircraft in front of the American consulate in Tokyo, Japan.
Utagawa Yoshitora was a prolific woodblock print designer, especially known for his designs of foreigners-a genre of print known as Yokohama-e, named for Yokohama port which opened to the West in 1859.
Utagawa Yoshitora's prints show the Japanese's views on foreigners visiting Japan during this period and their observations of Westerners' lives in Japan.
Triptych
Created in 1867
Artist: Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎; Japanese, active circa 1850-1880)
- Price:$155.00
- Glazed synthetic leather
- Custom-print durable Oxford
- Top handles, 9 3/4" drop
- Top zip closure
- Interior features print lining; back zip pocket; 2 front open slip pockets
- Size: 19"W x 9"H x 7"D