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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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Drawbridges and the foreign visitors who came to see them are what set this sheet apart, and its catalog places both in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, the years when the Edo period ended and the Meiji era began. The record credits Isoda Koryūsai, an ukiyo-e artist active from about 1764 to 1788, but it also gives a date of 1750, which comes before that working period, so the attribution and date are worth treating with some caution. Bridges crossing the city's moats and canals were everyday features of Edo, and the opening of Japan to foreigners in the 1850s changed who crossed them and how they were regarded. The subject pairing of a local landmark with outsiders is the detail most worth noticing here.

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. Forms part of the David Murray Collection. Murray Collection continues
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan5,726 × 3,733 px · prints to 19 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227627

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