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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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The record for this drawing gives conflicting details. Its subject headings point to a drawbridge in Tokyo and foreign visitors there between 1850 and 1900, while its notes list flowers and botanicals, and its 1750 date predates the 1764 to 1788 period given for the artist, Isoda Koryūsai. Koryūsai was a leading ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period, known for images of beautiful women. Tokyo was opened to foreign residents in the later nineteenth century, so a drawing of a bridge and visitors there would capture a city in transition.

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. flowers botanicals
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan2,347 × 3,380 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227568

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