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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 and a group of foreign visitors set this drawing apart. The catalog places the scene in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, a period when Japan was opening its ports and Western travelers began arriving in the capital in growing numbers. The record credits Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-period artist active from the 1760s to the 1780s, but its 1750 date falls before those years, so it should be read with caution. The drawing's place in the David Murray Collection at the Library of Congress makes it a useful record of how outsiders were pictured in Japanese art.

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 scan3,312 × 2,379 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227630

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