The ideological and aesthetic bases of the School of Yokohama

The visual language of the artists of the School of Yokohama, when it is analysed with a critical approach and from a comparative angle on the basis of the existing works, appears to respond to a real «ideological programme» that was based on two interconnected aspects: The the close relationship that existed between the journey experience and the depiction of landscapes, the so-called «famous places» (名所, meisho), and of historical sites (宮跡, kyūseki) and the the deep bond that developed between the subjects and structures of the photographic images and some of the expressive features that characterised the visual culture of the Edo period (1603-1868).