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Source Description
Hand-colored map of Jeddo (Edo), or Tokyo, Japan showing the Shogunate precinct and gardens, government offices, houses and grounds, temples, shrines, bays, rivers, markets, canals, roads, bridges, and fields of rice and vegetables.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
ht250b870
label
Ansei kaisei Oedo ōezu
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
ht250b870
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Ansei kaisei Oedo ōezu
description
Hand-colored map of Jeddo (Edo), or Tokyo, Japan showing the Shogunate precinct and gardens, government offices, houses and grounds, temples, shrines, bays, rivers, markets, canals, roads, bridges, and fields of rice and vegetables.
date
["1849"]
year
1849
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Japanese
identifierLocal
06_01_015345
creators
Takai, Ranzan, 1762-1838
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Real property--Japan--Tokyo--Maps
Tokyo (Japan)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Asia
Japan
Tokyo
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Japan
city
Tokyo
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[Edo]
publisher
Izumoji Manjirō
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
35.75
schema:longitude
139.5
extent
1 map : hand colored ; 117 x 131 cm, folded in envelope 28 x 21 cm
notes
Cover title.
Originally published: Genroku 9 [1696], revised Bunsei 5 [1822], reprinted Tenpō 14 [1843].
Wood block print.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes distance chart and day by day listing of events in Edo for 1859.
Key to colors printed on verso of envelope.
Accompanied by a sheet of text, titled "Map of Jeddo."
This map is all the work of native artists, and was printed and colored in the City of Jeddo, Japan for the Rev. Henry Wood, Chaplain of the steam frigate Powhatan.--Accompanying sheet.
In Japanese.
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no
dcId
ht250b870
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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