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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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Hotei, the round-bellied figure among the Seven Lucky Gods of Japanese folklore, is the subject named in this drawing's record, which is why he is often called a Japanese Santa Claus. The work is attributed to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo-based ukiyo-e artist active between about 1764 and 1788, when images of the lucky gods were popular as good-fortune pictures. The catalog also gives a date of 1750 and subject headings about Tokyo drawbridges and foreign visitors in 1850 to 1900, which do not fit the artist's working years, so those details are best treated with caution.

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. Hotei Japanese Santa Claus
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,772 × 5,386 px · prints to 13 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227533

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