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[Japanese drawing] – Historic 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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Step back in time with [Japanese drawing], a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Drawbridges in Tokyo and the foreign visitors who came to see them are the subjects this drawing is catalogued under, for the years 1850 to 1900. The record credits Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-period artist active from about 1764 to 1788, which sits awkwardly beside the stated date of 1750, so that date deserves some caution. Japan opened its ports and capital to foreign diplomats and travelers in the later nineteenth century, and views like this often recorded that meeting of cultures for audiences abroad.

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 scan3,636 × 5,369 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227622

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