Gojo nai tsuribashi no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Drawbridge at the entrance of the Imperial Palace. – Historic Reproduction
(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 window into the past: Gojo nai tsuribashi no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Drawbridge at the entrance of the Imperial Palace., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gojo nai tsuribashi no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Drawbridge at the entrance of the Imperial Palace.
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The title names a *tsuribashi*, a lifting drawbridge that spanned the moat at the entrance to the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, where the former Edo castle stood. Such bridges were raised and lowered to control access, and this one is paired in the subject headings with foreign visitors, a reminder that the capital was opening to outside travelers after 1868. The record lists the print as dated 1850 and credits Isoda Koryūsai, but its notes cite Meiji-era prints, so the date and attribution are best treated as tentative. Its woodcut color style is typical of the late nineteenth century, when Tokyo was being remade as a modern imperial capital.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Isoda Koryūsai fl. 1764-1788 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 20.5 x 32 cm. (block) 23 x 34.3 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 180; LC2585; 47623a (white label). Earlier control number: 236.3-28. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Meiji no hanga / Kimata Ryoji. Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Form of name (100) in original record: [Kobayashi Kiyochika]; Source of name (100): Meiji no hanga. (NOS) |
| Subjects | Drawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,462 × 3,582 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227377 |
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