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MapOutline Map of Japan. This picture map of Japan was published at the end of the 17th century. The cartographer, Ishikawa Tomonobu (also known as Ryūsen and Ryūshū, date of birth and death unknown) was an ukiyo-e artist and mapmaker. He is said to have been a student of Hishikawa Moronobu (1618--94), often considered the first ukiyo-e artist. It is the first map of Japan by Ryūsen with...
- Contributor: Ishikawa, Tomonobu, Died 1715
- Date: 1687-01-01
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MapKyōto Pictorial. The document presented here is a pictorial map of Kyōto published in 1686, early in the Edo period (1603--1867). The publication of maps in Japan started in Kyōto at the beginning of the Edo period, and the first city map to be published was a map of Kyōto. The first Kyōto maps depicted just the urban area, but the scope of the maps gradually...
- Date: 1686-01-01
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MapShinsen zōho Kyō ōezu
新撰増補京大絵図 / | Kyō ōezu Title from Nihon koezu shūsei, 1974, suppl., p. 102. Wood block print, hand colored. LC copy imperfect: Has worm holes. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Shows selected landowners and points of interest. Includes text and distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650; 651- Contributor: Hayashi, Yoshinaga
- Date: 1686-01-01
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MapBushū 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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MapEdo ōezu, eiri
江戶大繪圖・繪入 / Cover title. Wood block print, hand colored. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Cadastral map showing landowners. Includes distance chart. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1; 651/2- Contributor: Hayashi, Yoshinaga
- Date: 1683-01-01