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• Title:Kaisei nihon yochi rotei zenzu.
  
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• Variant Title:Sekisui's map of Japan
  
• Author/Creator:Nagakubo, Sekisui, 1717-1801.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Murakami, Kuhêi.
  Asano, Yahêi.
  
• Published/Created:Ôsaka : Asano Yahêi, Anei 8 [1779].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Japanese mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G7961 .P2 1779 N3
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Shelved at: RBSC roll maps drawer 1
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Roads--Japan--Maps.
  Japan--Maps--18th century.
  
• Edition:[First edition].
  
• Description:Scale [1:1 296,000] : 10 ri to 1 sun.
  1 map : woodcut, ms. col. ; 83. 2 x 135 cm.
  
• Series:Beans; 1779.1.
  [Beans]; 1779.1.
  
• Notes:This map is the first issue of first edition; revised and augmented in later years.
  Shimokita peninsula of Northern end of Honshû is shaped like a fireman's axe.
  Shows provinces, roads, cities, and meridians; 12 compass roses; 2 blocks of text (no borders).
  Cover attached; title taken from cover.
  Sekisui uses meridians and a scale, reducing the purely decorative element and greatly increasing the number of place names.
  References: NIHON KOCHIZU TAISEI (Monumenta Cartographica Japonica), pl. 33 and the explanation volume, pp.59-60; K. Unno, "Cartography in Japan," History of Cartography, v.2 bk.2 pp.346-477.
  Reproductions: Beans, A list of Japanese maps (1951), fp. 24; History of Cartography, v.2 bk.2 page 414 fig.11.45.
  
• Cited in:WSN; 89