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[Japanese drawing] – Antique 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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Catalogued only as a Japanese drawing, this sheet carries subject tags for drawbridges in Tokyo and for foreign visitors, both pointing to the period from 1850 to 1900, when Japan reopened to Western trade and Edo was renamed Tokyo in 1868. The record also gives a date of 1750, yet it credits Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-based artist active from about 1764 to 1788, so the earlier date is probably approximate or a cataloguing error. Koryūsai is best known for bijin-ga, or studies of elegant women, and for scenes of everyday life in Edo. Viewers should weigh the subject tags against the artist's dates when placing this work in time.

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. Botanicals
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan2,388 × 3,373 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227431

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