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[Japanese drawing] – Historic Reproduction

[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 drawbridge in Tokyo is the first subject this drawing names, and the record also lists foreign visitors, which places the scene in the city's busy foreign-contact period. Isoda Koryūsai (active about 1764 to 1788) was an ukiyo-e artist best known for woodblock prints of women, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. The record's dates do not agree with one another: it gives 1750, while the artist's working years and the 1850 to 1900 subject range point to a later date. Tokyo's castle moats and bridges drew many Western visitors in the late Edo and early Meiji years, so the subject fits that setting.

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 scan3,624 × 5,368 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227411

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