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[Japanese drawing] – Historic Reproduction

[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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[Japanese drawing] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A drawbridge and a pair of foreign visitors give this drawing its particular subject, a scene more often associated with late-Edo travel than with the courtesans and actors that made Koryūsai's name. The catalog subjects place the setting in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, a span covering the last decades of the shogunate and the early Meiji era, when treaty ports opened and Western travelers began arriving in Japan's capital. The record also gives a date of 1750 and names Isoda Koryūsai, who was active from 1764 to 1788, so those details do not agree. The subject period is the most useful clue, and the artist attribution and date deserve checking against other sources.

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 scan3,707 × 5,404 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227412

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