Japan. Ino Tadataka, Kokogun-Zenzu, Atlas of the Provinces & Districts of Japan, 2 volumes, Nagoya: Tempo 8, [1837], seventy-five (complete) colour woodblock maps, some worming but largely confined to margins, contemporary yellow paper wrappers with printed titles to upper covers, side stitched Japanese style binding, 280 x 200 mm (Qty: 2) A beautiful atlas which illustrates Japanese cartography at its finest. Such atlases were compiled by order of the Shogun Tokugawa and given as gifts to his favoured warlords. Many of the feudal fortresses in Japan were subsequently destroyed by war and fire, their archives were lost, and thus few such examples survive. Further Ino Tadataka material is scarce as most of his surviving maps were assembled in the late 1800s by an imperial functionary and avid Ino collector. They were subsequently stored in the Royal Palace archives which were themselves, tragically, destroyed by fire in 1912.
Japan. Ino Tadataka, Kokogun-Zenzu, Atlas of the Provinces & Districts of Japan, 2 volumes, Nagoya: Tempo 8, [1837], seventy-five (complete) colour woodblock maps, some worming but largely confined to margins, contemporary yellow paper wrappers with printed titles to upper covers, side stitched Japanese style binding, 280 x 200 mm (Qty: 2) A beautiful atlas which illustrates Japanese cartography at its finest. Such atlases were compiled by order of the Shogun Tokugawa and given as gifts to his favoured warlords. Many of the feudal fortresses in Japan were subsequently destroyed by war and fire, their archives were lost, and thus few such examples survive. Further Ino Tadataka material is scarce as most of his surviving maps were assembled in the late 1800s by an imperial functionary and avid Ino collector. They were subsequently stored in the Royal Palace archives which were themselves, tragically, destroyed by fire in 1912.
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