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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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A window into the past: [Japanese drawing], preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Drawbridges and foreign visitors are the two subjects this drawing is catalogued under, both placed in Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, a period that spanned the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the city's renaming from Edo in 1868. The attribution to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo ukiyo-e artist active from the 1760s to the 1780s, does not match the 1750 date given, so the dating should be treated as uncertain. Foreign residents and travelers became a familiar presence in the capital after Japan's ports opened to trade in the 1850s, and images like this one record that shift in daily city life.

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. color patterns designs
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,642 × 5,364 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227575

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