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[Japanese drawing] – Antique 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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[Japanese drawing] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A drawbridge and a group of foreign visitors set this drawing apart from the other sheets on the board. The subject dates in the record, 1850 to 1900, cover the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji era, when Edo was renamed Tokyo in 1868 and foreigners gained access to the city under new treaties. The attribution to Isoda Koryūsai, who worked in Edo from the 1760s through the 1780s, does not match the 1750 date, so the sheet's age is worth checking before relying on either. Still, the drawing offers a glimpse of how the city and its newcomers were recorded during a period of rapid change.

Created / published1750
CreatorIsoda Koryūsai fl. 1764-1788 artist.
Medium1 drawing.
NotesForms part of the David Murray Collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,691 × 5,458 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227625

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