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[Japanese drawing] – Vintage Wall Art

[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 window into the past: [Japanese drawing], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A drawing of Tokyo's drawbridges, with foreign visitors among its subjects, sets this sheet apart from the artist's better-known work. The record credits Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-based painter and printmaker active from 1764 to 1788, yet dates the sheet to 1750 and places its subjects between 1850 and 1900, so the timeline should be read with caution. Koryūsai is best known for prints of beauties and everyday scenes, and the bridges and travelers here reflect city life in a later period, when Japan's ports opened to foreign trade and Western visitors became a more common sight in Tokyo.

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 scan3,650 × 5,409 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227545

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