Lot 266
SEIKEN GENGYO (JAPANESE)
WOODBLOCK PRINT OF JAPANESE HISTORICAL MAP, PUBLISHED IN 1864
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 6 November 2019 at 12:00 GMT
£500
Description
江戶時代 《大日本海陸全圖》版畫地圖
titled in kanji, reads 'Dai-Nihon kaikiru zenzu', translated as 'the complete nautical and land maps of the Great Japan', published in the 4th Bunkyū year (1864) by the publisher Ebisuya Shoshichi in Toto City, the original woodblock engraved by Takeguchi Takizaburō, oriented with north to the upper right, with the scale of 1:1,944,000, despite the mainland of Japan, also covers the Japanese archipelago, which are Yakushima, Tanegashima, Okinoerabujima, Kikaijima, Hachijō-jima, Kunashir etc., with wooden frame
Dimensions
81cm x 108cm