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    "label": "Ansei kaisei Oedo ōezu",
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    "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,
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    "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": [
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        "Japan",
        "Tokyo"
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    "pubPlace": "[Edo]",
    "publisher": "Izumoji Manjirō"
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    "extent": "1 map : hand colored ; 117 x 131 cm, folded in envelope 28 x 21 cm",
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        "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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