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[Japanese drawing] – Historic Print

[Japanese drawing], 1750 — historic drawing
[Japanese drawing], 1750. Historic drawing from the Japanese Prints collection.

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This drawing is catalogued with drawbridges in Tokyo and foreign visitors as its subjects, which places the scene in the decades around the Meiji period, when the city was still called Edo until 1868. The attribution to Isoda Koryūsai, an Edo ukiyo-e artist active from about 1764 to 1788, does not square with the 1750 date or the 1850 to 1900 subject range, so the dating is best read as approximate. Whatever its exact moment, the scene reflects the years after Japan reopened its ports to Western traders in the 1850s, when foreign visitors became a familiar presence in the capital. Drawbridges like these controlled passage between the city's districts and the castle grounds, which makes them a useful lens on how daily movement through the city was organized.

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 scan3,132 × 3,690 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227509

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