Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV 10000094 USNM Ethnology Catalog 398560
- Variant Title
- Mt. Fuji dated 1877
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- MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps
- Extent
- 1 Print (color woodblock, 38 x 37.75 inches mounted on 42 x 42.5 inches)
- Date
- 1877
- Container
- Map-folder 7
- 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 mountaineer's guide map in the form of a flattened cone with certain features shown with overlays. Included are pictures of climbers in poses representing various mountaineering stages, a representation of the climber's torch used at the annual fire festival held on 21 July, the closing date for mountaineers, and distances from various points to the mountain top. Inscriptions idenify religious, historical, and scenic areas in the region. There are also portraits of two pioneer climbers: Itō Ihei at age 63 and Fujiwara Takekuni at age 106.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1673988000773-1673988001368-1
