An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama

1861

Color woodblock print triptych, 37 × 75.7 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago

Westerners and their Japanese companions crowd the veranda of a trading house above a busy harbor.

Look for the American flag on a tall flagpole at left.
The Met holds a related 1861 triptych by the same designer, of foreigners indoors.
After Yokohama opened to foreign trade, prints showed buyers the newcomers' clothes and buildings.