Edo: Bunseido, [c.1700]. Hand-colored xylographic map of China, on mulberry paper, 240 x 355mm, folding to form a pocket map 120 x 38mm. The map showing the coastliness to the East and South, and the mountains and deserts to the north and west, the 15 province names colored in red, the principal towns and mountains in yellow, seas and rivers colored in blue, the verso with a woodcut list of all the Emperors of China, one line with a manuscript correction in red ink, listing up until Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) of the Qing dynasty. Old fold marks with some wear, some splits along folds with very slight loss, two small worm holes to title on upper left corner. An interesting map of China published in Edo, but copied from chinese sources. A somewhat similar Chinese map is included in the Japanese encyclopedia by Morokoshi Kinmo zui, published in 1718. The detailed rendition of the Great Wall with various gaps suggests an accuracy which japanese maps rarely have, while the curious folding map format for a traveller would normally seem quite useful for this period, except that no Japanese were allowed to travel to China under threat of death. The island at the lower right is Okinawa, which at this time acted as an entrepot trading post for Japanese and Chinese trade.
Edo: Bunseido, [c.1700]. Hand-colored xylographic map of China, on mulberry paper, 240 x 355mm, folding to form a pocket map 120 x 38mm. The map showing the coastliness to the East and South, and the mountains and deserts to the north and west, the 15 province names colored in red, the principal towns and mountains in yellow, seas and rivers colored in blue, the verso with a woodcut list of all the Emperors of China, one line with a manuscript correction in red ink, listing up until Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) of the Qing dynasty. Old fold marks with some wear, some splits along folds with very slight loss, two small worm holes to title on upper left corner. An interesting map of China published in Edo, but copied from chinese sources. A somewhat similar Chinese map is included in the Japanese encyclopedia by Morokoshi Kinmo zui, published in 1718. The detailed rendition of the Great Wall with various gaps suggests an accuracy which japanese maps rarely have, while the curious folding map format for a traveller would normally seem quite useful for this period, except that no Japanese were allowed to travel to China under threat of death. The island at the lower right is Okinawa, which at this time acted as an entrepot trading post for Japanese and Chinese trade.
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