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Yokohama Boomtown Curriculum, Lesson 01

Every Picture Tells a Story: Conducting a Detailed
Analysis of a Yokohama-Era Woodblock Print


Handout 01-B

Woodblock Prints for Group Projects

Woodblocks without explanatory notes:
Essay: Interactions: Picture of Foreign Residence in Yokohama
Essay: Interactions: Picture of Foreigners' Revelry at the Gankirō in the Miyozaki Quarter of Yokohama
Essay: Interactions: Pictures of Amusements of Foreigners in Yokohama in Bushu
Essay: Internationalism: Picture of a Steam Locomotive

Woodblocks with explanatory notes:
Essay: Boomtown: Picture of Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa
Essay: Boomtown: Picture of a Sunday in Yokohama
Essay: Interactions: Picture of a Salesroom in a Foreign Mercantile Firm in Yokohama
Essay: Introduction: Picture of the Landing of Foreigners of the Five Nations in Yokohama






Lesson developed by Lynn Parisi.






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