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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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[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 over a Tokyo waterway and the foreign visitors crossing it set this drawing apart from the many Japanese prints of city life. The catalog dates it to 1750, yet the artist Isoda Koryūsai is recorded as active from 1764 to 1788, and the subject headings point to Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, so the exact date deserves caution. That later window covers the years after Japan opened its ports to foreign trade in the 1850s and the Meiji era that followed, when Edo became Tokyo in 1868 and Western visitors grew more common in the city. It is worth noticing how the artist rendered these newcomers within a familiar Japanese pictorial style.

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 scan5,400 × 3,702 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227631

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