Harbor with Lighthouse and American Men and Ships

A tall white lighthouse with a red lantern room rises from a walled, grass-covered compound at the center of this triptych, its grounds crowded with dozens of small figures in kimono and Western-style dress walking, conversing, and pulling a cart. Green rocky headlands frame the harbor on either side, with sailing ships, rowboats, and steam-funneled vessels dotting the water beneath a sky banded in blue, white, and red; a Japanese flag flies from a pole beside the lighthouse. Vertical red cartouches with black text and a scroll-form text panel in the upper right accompany the scene, consistent with its identification as *Harbor with Lighthouse and American Men and Ships* by Utagawa Kuniteru II, a color woodblock ōban triptych.