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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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A drawbridge and foreign visitors form the subject of this drawing, which its catalog places in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900. The record credits it to Isoda Koryūsai, an artist active from about 1764 to 1788, yet gives 1750 as the date, so the dating deserves a second look. Koryūsai was best known for elegant prints of women and urban life in Edo, the city renamed Tokyo in 1868. Drawbridges were a common sight along that city's canals and moats, and images of them show how travelers moved through its streets during the years after Japan's ports opened to foreign trade in the 1850s.

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 scan3,658 × 5,393 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227532

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