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    Okinawa henkan kinenzu = Map of Japan.
    沖縄返還記念図 = Map of Japan | Map of Japan
    Oriented with north towards upper right. "In commemoration of the return by the United States to Japan of Administrative Rights over the Ryūkyū Islands and the Daitō Islands, May 15, 1972." "Copy 52 of 100." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy includes notes from donor: "In November 1969 President Nixon announced that the United States...
    • Date: 1972-01-01
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    Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu
    Nihon yochi rotei zenzu
    Woodblock print. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. LC copy annotated in black ink. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Nagakubo, Sekisui
    • Date: 1779-01-01
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    Bushū Toshima-gun Edo shōzu.
    武州豊嶋郡江戶庄圖 | Bushū Toshima Gōri Edo no shōzu | Bushū Toshima-gun Edo-shō zu
    On cover, annotated in black ink: Edo ōezu. Title on label on cover: Kan'ei Edo kozu. Cadastral map showing land ownership in central Tokyo. Presumably original map created in Kan'ei Period (1630 or 1631), reprinted in Tenwa Period (1681-83). Relief shown pictorially. Wood block print. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Pictorial map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Date: 1682-01-01
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    Dai Nihon kairiku zenzu
    大日本海陸全圖 /
    Wood block print. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Includes distance charts. Based on map created by Nagakubo Sekisui. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651
    • Contributor: Baisotei, Gengyo - Nagakubo, Sekisui
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Saiken Kyō ezu taizen
    細見京繪圖大全 / | Kyō ezu taizen | Seikyō chizu, zen | Tenpō kaisei shinzō saiken Kyō ezu taizen, kan
    Title and date supplied from M. Namba. Old maps in Japan, 1973, p. 200. Alternative title inferred from CiNii online, April, 9, 2020: Tenpō kaisei shinzō saiken Kyō ezu taizen, kan. Wood block print. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Pictorial map. LC copy annotated in black ink on cover: Seikyō chizu. Shows some dwellings of imperial families. Available also...
    • Contributor: Ikeda, Tōri - Nakamura, Nagahide
    • Date: 1835-01-01
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    Kaisei Nihon yochi rotei zenzu.
    改正日本輿地路程全圖 | Nihon yochi rotei zenzu
    Wood block print. Oriented with north toward upper right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
    • Contributor: Nagakubo, Sekisui
    • Date: 1775-01-01
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    Aichi-ken (Gakuden chiku) Inuyama-shi tochi hōten : chiban chiseki chimoku irizu
    愛知県 (楽田地区) 犬山市土地宝典 : 地番地積地目入図 / | Inuyama-shi tochi hōten tochi hōten, chiban chiseki chimoku irizu | Tochi hōten
    Shows lot numbers, boundaries and address. Title from cover.

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    Dai Nihon kokugun yochi zenzu.
    大日本国郡輿地全圖 | Kaei shinzō Dai Nihon kokugun yochi zenzu | Nihon dōchūki
    Map covers Matsmae to Ryūkyū Okinawa, Hachijōjima, Chōsen nantan. Relief shown pictorially. Map shows cities and towns, distance, boundaries, longitude line. Cover title. Wood block print. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Japanese. Other title, "Kaei shinzō Dai Nihon kokugun yochi zenzu" on cover, "Nihon dōchūki" in note. Includes distance chart from Edo, "Musashi no kuni jū Edo shokoku dōhō no ki." LC...
    • Contributor: Takashiba, Sanʼyū - Takashiba, Sanʾyū
    • Date: 1849-01-01
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    [Nihon-zu sara]. Made in Tempō period, 1830-1843. Shows most of Japan on a plate of Imari ware: Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Date: 1830-01-01
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    Kanpan jissoku Nihon chizu. Ezo shotō
    官板・實測日本地圖 | Jissoku Nihon chizu | Ezo shotō
    Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Title from cover pasted on verso. LC copy imperfect: worm holes. Includes Etorofu and Kunashiri islands. LC copy 2 has "8967[?] 08" pencilled-in, indicating this is in Asakawa [Kan'ichi] collection. LC copy 1 has "E.N. Van Reed, Yokohama, 1870" written. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "大學南校"--Stamped on copy 2. NACSIS...
    • Contributor: Inō, Tadataka
    • Date: 1870-01-01
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    Minamata Tenaga Mategata shin shiohama, tomode hidariya ishigaki rangui deki ezu
    水俣手永馬刀潟新塩浜, 塘手左屋石垣乱杭出来繪圖
    Pictorial map. Minamata salt evaporation fields map. Manuscript: Watercolors and title by ink. Selected buildings shown pictorially. Map shows salt fields surrounded by Minamata River, the land surrounded by newly-formed stone walls and wall piles; shows huts, shrine "Shiogama Daimyōjin," local government office buildings; some individual names, onwer's names are written on pieces of paper and pasted on base map. Title on verso. Place...
    • Date: 1667
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    Shinkoku fukui butoku anmin, Okatame taihei kagami : Izu, Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimōsa
    神國伏夷武徳安民・御固泰平鑑 : 伊豆・相模・武蔵・安房・上総・下総 | Okatame taihei kagami
    Shows coast defense of Tokyo Bay in 1852. Includes notes describing the troops and list of names of Samurais in charge of defense of Tokyo Bay on an attached sheet, pasted on bottom of map. Pictorial map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 29-82 Vault
    • Date: 1852
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    Manju Ōsaka saikenzu.
    萬壽大阪細見圖
    Scale not given. Cover title. Wood block print. LC copy has map extension pasted on lower right corner of map. Oriented with north to the left. Shows selected points of interest. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651
    • Contributor: Itamiya, Zemb
    • Date: 1863-01-01
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    Edo ōezu
    江戶大繪圖 /
    Cover title. Wood block print. Oriented with north to the right. Japanese. Cadastral map showing landowners. LC copy annotated in black ink in upper right corner. Reduced ed. of official map compiled by Hōjō Awa no Kami. Includes text and inset. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2 Note in upper right mentions Edo (Tokyo) big...
    • Contributor: Ochikochi Dōin
    • Date: 1676-01-01
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    Seisen Dai Nihon zenzu, ichimei, Dōchū hitori annai : tsuketari, meishōga iri Alternate title: Dai Nihon zenzu. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 5 insets, table of guns (counties), and ill. of points of interest in margins.
    • Contributor: Sagano, Hikotarō
    • Date: 1888-01-01
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    Settsu no Kuni meisho ōezu.
    摂津國名所大繪圖
    Xylograph map of Osaka-ku. Title information from title on map in National Diet Library OPAC, July 2, 2020. Presumably drawing by Seichikudo Mitsukiyo. Original map "Settsu no Kuni meisho ōezu," engraved in Kan'ei 1-nen (1748). Japanese. "From private collection of Dr. B. B. Szczesniak, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Seichikudo, Mitsukiyo
    • Date: 1844-01-01
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    O-Edo ōezu
    御江戶大絵図 /
    Title information inferred from OPAC of Waseda University, April, 7, 2020. Wood block print. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Cadastral map showing landowners. Original published in Genroku 9 i.e. 1696. Japanese. Includes distance chart and daily listing of events in Edo for 1861. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2 "元禄9年旧板・文政5年補改・天保14年再板・文久1年改正."
    • Contributor: Okadaya, Kashichi - Takai, Ranzan - Izumoji, Manjirō
    • Date: 1861-01-01
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    Scaled Coastal Map of Japan, Eastern Provinces (Ino Maps). Inō Tadataka (1745-1818) was a famous surveyor and cartographer of the Edo period in Japan. He is known for completing the first map of Japan based on actual measurements, which he himself made by traveling throughout the country. In 1800 Inō surveyed the area from Edo (present-day Tokyo) to Nemuro (in present-day Hokkaidō) on the Ōshū Highway. He continued measuring other parts of eastern...
    • Contributor: Inō, Tadataka
    • Date: 1804-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

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    Genji shinsen kōto saikenzu.
    元治新撰皇都細見圖 | Kōto saikenzu
    Street map of Kyoto, showing temples, shrines, palaces, mansions, etc. Relief shown pictorially in surrounding area. Japanese. Panel title. Oriented with north to the left. Includes col. ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 96-11h
    • Date: 1864-01-01
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    Chūko keishi naigai chizu : Hakushū [i.e. Kōshū] shoyo senbu.
    中古京師内外地圖 : 白州 [i.e. Kōshū] 緖餘撰部 | Chūko keishi naigai chizu, Kōshū choyo senbu
    Shows temples, shrines, palaces, mansions, etc. in Kyoto. Japanese. Pen-and-ink and watercolor, probably by Mori Kinsai. Sesshū Higashinari-gōri Shitennōji, Osaka, Mori Kinsai Kōan. Alternative title inferred from CiNii online, April, 9, 2020: Chūko keishi naigai chizu, Kōshū choyo senbu. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 96-11b "森謹齋幸安珍重圖並識." Copy has "Keiin Geisō"[?] "桂蔭芸〓"...
    • Contributor: Mori, Kinsai
    • Date: 1750-01-01
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    [Suruga no Kuni zu]. Title supplied. Relief shown pictorially. Label attached to map: C. Copy of reduced map by Inō (71 years ago). Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Inō, Tadataka
    • Date: 1816-01-01
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    Ansei kaisei Oedo ōezu
    安政改正御江戶大繪圖 / | Oedo ōezu | Map of Jeddo
    Cover title. Originally published: Genroku 9 [1696], revised Bunsei 5 [1822], reprinted Tenpō 14 [1843]. Wood block print. Cadastral map showing landowners. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Oriented with north to the right. Includes distance chart and day by day listing of events in Edo for 1859. LC copy has English sentence written in legend. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Contributor: Okadaya, Kashichi - Takai, Ranzan - Izumoji, Manjirō
    • Date: 1859-01-01
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    Kaisei Nihon yochi rotei zenzu zōshū teihon shinbun gunkai
    改正日本輿地路程全圖増修定本新分郡界 / | Nihon yochi rotei zenzu
    Shows administrative divisions (provinces, counties, capitals of fiefs), highways, historical places, and temples. Also shows distances between ports. Title from cover. Originally engraved on wood block in Anʾei 2, i.e. 1773. Originally entitled "Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu." Wood block print. Includes explanatory notes. LC copy imperfect: Worm holes in map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
    • Contributor: Nagakubo, Sekisui - Morimoto, Tasuke
    • Date: 1840-01-01
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    Ansei kaisei Oedo ōezu
    安政改正御江戶大繪圖 / | O-Edo ōezu. Ranzan Takai, kore o zusu
    Cover title. Oriented with north to the right. Wood block print, hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Cadastral map showing land ownership. Shows important buildings, family crests, and points of interest. Includes distance chart and day by day listing of events in Tokyo for 1860. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Mrs. Nelson. T. Johnson, 17...
    • Contributor: Okadaya, Kashichi - Takai, Ranzan
    • Date: 1860-01-01
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    Kyōto kinbō zu = Kyōto and environs.
    Kyōto and environs
    Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Title and some place names annotated in English. Missing sheets 3 and 4. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Date: 1900-01-01