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• Title:Dai-Nihon saiken shishô zenzu.
  
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• Variant Title:Detailed and visualized map of great Japan
  
• Author/Creator:Shôtô, Sanjin.
  
• Published/Created:[Osaka? : Publisher not identified, approximately 1830?].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Japanese mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G7960 .1808 S5 1830
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Shelved at: RBSC roll maps drawer 2
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Manuscript maps.
  Japan--Maps--19th century.
  
• Description:1 map : manuscript, colour ; 145 x 229. 3 cm., folded in cover 42 x 29 cm.
  
• Notes:Large manuscript copy of a Sekisui-style map of Japan, with detached covers.
  First edition of this map was drawn by Shôtô Sanjin or Nishimori Taijô, and was published in Osaka by Fujiya Yahê and Kichimonjiya Ichizaemon in 1808.
  Orientation: west.
  The title is in a vertical box along the short north end of the sheet.
  The legend is centred on the west side, and is divided into 3 sections: symbols for provinces, cities with castles, large inns, old castles / battlefields, large shrines / temples, famous places, provincial borders; table of corrected distances in the 5 districts, 7 highways, and sea routes; latitudes of various places.
  Eight compass roses, showing the Chinese calendar, surround the islands, but the meridians and parallels do not extend to the land.