Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzuTITLE TRANSLATION:A map of the world. – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzuTITLE TRANSLATION:A map of the world. comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzuTITLE TRANSLATION:A map of the world.
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Centered on Nagasaki, the only port where the Tokugawa government allowed limited trade with foreigners, this woodcut is less a conventional world map than a reference sheet. It gives distances from Nagasaki to places across the world and names the feudal lords assigned to guard the coast. Small insets show American and Russian soldiers, a sign of the unease felt before Commodore Perry's squadron reached Japan in 1853. Printed in 1850, the sheet shows how Japanese readers were beginning to picture a wider world and the pressures that might come from it.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut b&w ; 21 x 28 cm. (block) 23.8 x 32 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Typewritten annotation on back mount: A table of mileage from Nagasaki to various parts of the world and the names of the feudal lords who were assigned the duties of coast guards the United States and Russians soldiers in insets. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 177; 47623a. Annotation in pencil on back of mount: Yokohama print. Earlier control number: 177. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Soldiers--American--1850-1900. Soldiers--Russian--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,487 × 3,596 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227281 |
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