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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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Few details in the record set this drawing apart from its subject: a drawbridge in Tokyo, with foreign visitors in the scene. The catalog places it in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, a period when Japan was opening to Western travelers after centuries of tight restriction. The artist is listed as Isoda Koryūsai, who worked in Edo, Tokyo's earlier name, from the 1760s through the 1780s, so the 1750 date in the record may be approximate or refer to a different period than the artist's active years. Drawings like this one show how Japanese artists recorded encounters with outsiders.

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 scan3,341 × 2,467 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227519

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