Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
The foreigners' cemetery at Kanagawa — established following the 1859 opening of Yokohama as a treaty port, and serving the growing community of Western merchants, diplomats, and missionaries who settled in the area — appears in this Tokaido station print as an unusual subject: the European dead in Japanese soil, their carved stone monuments marking the cultural collision point that Kanagawa-Yokohama represented.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery depicts urban scenes, religious, and travel scenes.