3-016-754 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Barracks for British troops in course of erection at Yokohama - from a sketch by our special artist in Japan, 1864. 'We engrave...[a] sketch taken by Mr. Wirgman, our Special Artist in Japan...The Illustration represents the barracks in the course of construction for the detachment of the 20th [ie a British army regiment], expected daily at Yokohama. These barracks were planned and constructed by Captain Fred. Brine, Royal Engineers, an officer of great engineering ability, who has seen a good deal of Japan since he has been there, and who is at present studying the manners and customs of the Ainos, a tribe of Yeso distinguished by some curious features'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.