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[Japanese drawing] – Historic Reproduction

[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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This drawing is catalogued as a view of a drawbridge in Tokyo with foreign visitors, a subject that places it in the late Edo and early Meiji years. The record's dates do not agree, though. It gives 1750 as the date, while the artist, Isoda Koryūsai, is listed as active from 1764 to 1788, and his known work belongs to the later eighteenth century. Koryūsai was a leading ukiyo-e printmaker and painter, best known for prints of women and scenes of daily life. Because the drawing is catalogued as part of the David Murray Collection at the Library of Congress, its attribution and date are worth checking against the catalog record before drawing firm conclusions.

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 scan3,753 × 5,210 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227463

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