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[Japanese drawing] – Antique Wall Art

[Japanese drawing], 1750 — historic drawing
[Japanese drawing], 1750. Historic drawing from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures [Japanese drawing] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few pictures on this board name a specific structure as plainly as this one, which is catalogued around a drawbridge in Tokyo, a city called Edo until 1868. The record ties it to foreign visitors to Japan between 1850 and 1900, a period when Western travelers, diplomats and traders arrived after the country opened its ports in the 1850s. The attribution to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-based ukiyo-e artist active from 1764 to 1788, sits uneasily with the 1750 date given here, so the timing is worth checking against the Library of Congress catalog. Drawbridges were a familiar feature of the city's castle approaches and canals, which makes them a useful clue to how Edo looked to those who came to see it.

Created / published1750
CreatorIsoda Koryūsai fl. 1764-1788 artist.
Medium1 drawing.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Forms part of the David Murray Collection.
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,688 × 5,429 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227487

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