Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu

Caption

Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Catalog notes

Nagakubo Sekisui’s woodblock map presents Japan as a connected landscape of roads, settlements, coasts and pictorial mountains. Its diagonal orientation places north toward the upper right, while color helps distinguish areas within the archipelago. The complete sheet offers a compact counterpart to the later multi-sheet Inō surveys and preserves an important example of Japanese cartographic design and printed geographic knowledge.

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