A mid-19th century Japanese woodcut map of Japan
Dai Nihon kairiku zenzu. [Complete Map of the land and Sea of Greater Japan].
Tokyo: Ebisuya Shoshich, 1864. Woodcut, printed in colours on two sheets, total 715 x 980mm, folded into patterned boards with title label.
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A large and colourful map of Japan, with distance tables and legend.
Engraved by Takeguchi Takesaburo, it is a revised version of the 1769 map by Nagakubo Sekisui, the first Japanese cartographer to employ lines of longitude and latitude).











