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Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu

Joseph Beckman 1 min read
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  1. 01 ā€” Introduction
  2. 02 ā€” Document
  3. 03 ā€” Metadata
  4. 04 ā€” Title
  5. 05 ā€” Description
  6. 06 ā€” Archive Identifier
  7. 07 ā€” Creator
  8. 08 ā€” Date as cataloged
  9. 09 ā€” Geographic coverage
  10. 10 ā€” Map type
  11. 11 ā€” Source institution
  12. 12 ā€” Source record
  13. 13 ā€” Rights statement
  14. 14 ā€” Rights evidence
  15. 15 ā€” Credit line
  16. 16 ā€” Curatorial note
  17. 17 ā€” Original image
  18. 18 ā€” Attachments

Document

Metadata

Title

Shinkoku Nihon yochi rotei zenzu

Description

Nagakubo Sekisuiā€™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.

Archive Identifier

LSM-LOC-2021668271-R1

Creator

Nagakubo Sekisui; Asano Yahē, publisher

Date as cataloged

1779 (Anā€™ei 8)

Geographic coverage

Japan

Source institution

Library of Congress

Source record

https://www.loc.gov/item/77694708/

Rights statement

Public domain historical map. The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division permits use and reuse of its digitized collections unless an item carries a contrary Rights Advisory; none appears on this record.

Rights evidence

https://www.loc.gov/item/77694708/

Credit line

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Curatorial note

Complete single folded sheet, not a selection from the unavailable Inō map set. Original Japanese title: ę–°åˆ»ę—„ęœ¬č¼æ地č·Æē؋å…Ø圖. Published in Naniwa by Asano Yahē in 1779. The Library of Congress notes black-ink annotations. Native display is 3,988 Ɨ 2,467 pixels; the linked archival JPEG2000 is offered at 22.5 MB. Fold lines and small physical losses in the source are retained; the smallest characters require archival enlargement.

Original image

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gmd/gmd7/g7961/g7961p/ct005506.jp2

Attachments