Yokohamaya

Yokohamaya was a print publisher based in Yokohama, one of Japan's major port cities and an important center for the export of Japanese art to the West. Active in the early twentieth century, Yokohamaya published woodblock prints aimed at both domestic and international markets, capitalizing on the growing Western interest in Japanese art and culture.

The publisher produced works in various styles, from traditional landscape scenes to designs that reflected the cosmopolitan character of Yokohama as a treaty port. While smaller in scale and reputation than publishers like Watanabe, Yokohamaya contributed to the broader ecosystem of woodblock print publishing during the shin-hanga era.