Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV 10000013 USNM Ethnology Catalog 398548
- Publisher
- Toshimaya, Bunjiemon
- Publisher
- Toshimaya, Bunjiemon
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- MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps
- Extent
- 1 Print (color woodblock, 26 x 25.5 mounted on 39.25 x 29)
- Date
- 1788
- Container
- Map-folder 1, Item 4
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Graphic Materials
- Prints
- Collection Citation
- MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- A street map depicting Nagasaki, nearby topological features, and foreign ships in the harbor. Also shown is Deshima and the Chinese settlement. The map is oriented to the northwest. Included is a table that shows distances by land and sea to various places in Japan from Nagasaki. The print is signed Onata Bunjiyemon, whose trade name was Toshimaya (also known as BunkindÅ). He was a well-known publisher of Nagasaki prints in the late eighteenth century. The map is dated "An'ei shichi tsuchi-no-e inu hachigatsu" (the eighth month of the seventh year of An-ei period, the year of the dog).
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1673988000773-1673988001358-1
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