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• Title:Shinpan Settsu Ôsaka tôzai nanboku shima no zu.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Kanda, Kiichirô.
  
• Published/Created:Kyôto : Published by someone living in front of the Honnôji temple, Teramachi, Meireki 1 [1655].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Japanese mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G7964 .O8 1655
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Shelved at: Map Drawer 2
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Scrolls, Japanese--Maps.
  
• Subject(s):Ôsaka--Maps--17th century.
  
• Description:1 plan : woodcut, ms. col., hanging scroll ; 119.3 x 77.4 cm., in box 96. 5 x 9 x 8 cm.
  
• Series:Beans; 1655.1.
  [Beans]; 1655.1.
  
• Notes:Shows streets, buildings (tradesmen's houses are printed in black, while buildings in the castle-grounds, and temples and shrines outside the city are shown pictorially), bridges and boats.
  Orientation: east.
  References: Akioka, NIHON CHIZU SHI, p.135; Akioka, NIHON CHIZU SAKUSEISHI, p.85; Kurita, "Japanese old printed maps of cities," (R17), page 7; K. Sako, KOHAN ÔSAKA CHIZU KAISETSU, (1924) (R30), pages 9-16; K. Unno, "Cartography in Japan," History of Cartography, v.2 bk.2, pp. 346-477.
  This is a hanging scroll on original wooden roller, in a box.
  Earliest of extant printed maps of Ôsaka; first of its type (Kurita, page 80).
  The stamp "Kandakezô" on this map indicates that it was owned by Kanda Kiichirô, a famous orientalist in Japan.
  Reproductions of this map: Sako, plate 2; History of Cartography, v.2 Bk. 2, p.417, fig. 11:48.
  
• Cited in:WSN; 5