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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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This rare historic drawing captures [Japanese drawing] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A drawing whose record names Tokyo drawbridges and the foreign visitors who came to see them, a subject more specific than most pictures on this board. The attribution to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-period artist active from 1764 to 1788, does not match the 1750 date, and the subject range of 1850 to 1900 is later still, so the exact moment of the sketch is uncertain. The city was called Edo until 1868, when it became Tokyo and the capital, and the bridges that crossed its moats and canals were a sight that drew attention from travelers after the country opened to foreign trade.

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 scan3,697 × 5,425 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227480

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