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[Japanese drawing] – Vintage Print

[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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A drawbridge in Tokyo, and the foreign visitors who came to see it, set this drawing apart from other pictures of the city. The catalog credits it to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-period artist active from the 1760s to the 1780s, but also gives a date of 1750 and places its subjects between 1850 and 1900, so the timing is unsettled. The later span covers the opening of Japan to foreign trade in the 1850s and the rapid change that followed, when Western travelers became a more common sight in the capital.

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. Forms part of the David Murray Collection. Murray Collection continues
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan2,373 × 3,418 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227628

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