Daikokuya Kinnosuke (大黒屋金之助)
Daikokuya Kinnosuke (大黒屋金之助; fl. c. 1853 - 1879) was a publisher of the late Edo and early Meiji periods. The firm was almost certainly named after its founder and may have retained the name after his death. The firm was originally based in Tsukiji in Edo / Tokyo and later moved to Ningyocho in Nihonbashi. It published works by several of the late masters of the ukiyo-e genre, including members of the Utagawa School, Yoshitoshi, and Kawanabe Kyōsai. The subjects of its prints ranged from views and maps to anatomical works, representations of scenes from literature, and fantastical depictions of ghosts.
AKA: 大黒屋金之助
Yokohama emerging as an international port.
橫濱海岸圖會 / [View of the Coast at Yokohama.]
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An early 1860 ukiyo-e triptych by Utagawa Hiroshige II, capturing Yokohama, Japan, as it emerged as an international treaty port. Published just months after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, this panoramic view presents a city poised between the insular world of Tokugawa Japan and the profound transformations that would soon accompany sustained contact with the West. Among the earliest printed views of Yokohama, it offers a Japanese vision of the nascent port: cherry blossoms, temples, teahouses, theaters, and the notorious Miyozaki pleasure quarter occupy a landscape only beginning to accommodate global commerce. Most evocative is a woman seated in a waterfront teahouse, telescope in hand, gazing across the harbor - an image that seems to encapsulate Japan itself, watching with fascination as an unfamiliar world approaches. (more details)