Detail View: Maps Collection:
|
Image Number:
|
JRL15120044
|
|
Reference Number:
|
Japanese 211
|
|
Image Title:
|
Tōkaidō bunken no zu
|
|
Alternative Image Title:
|
Tokaido bungen no zu
|
|
Alternative Image Title:
|
"Atlas of Tokaido”
|
|
Translated Image Title:
|
Measured map of the Tōkaidō Highway
|
|
Parent Work Title:
|
Tōkaidō bungen no zu, v.4, Genroku 3 [1690]
|
|
Creator:
|
Doin, Ochikochi, approximately 1628-1700
|
|
Creator Role:
|
Cartographer
|
|
Creator:
|
Moronobu, Hishikawa, 1618-1694
|
|
Creator Role:
|
Artist
|
|
Date Created:
|
[1690]
|
|
Publication Details:
|
Edo Shin-izumi-machi : Hangiya Shichirobêi
|
|
Page/Sheet:
|
Frame eight
|
|
Scale:
|
1:12,000
|
|
Image Sequence Number:
|
009
|
|
Description:
|
Eighth of 14 digital sections: An atlas of the Tokaido highway between Edo (Tokyo) and Osaka, compiled by the cartographer Ochikochi Doinby the painter Hishikawa Moronobu; woodblock-printed dochuzu or "on-the-road-maps" with great pictorial elaboration with elements of a guidebook. The map was first drawn in1690, but this copy is a later reprint. Accordion folded - 27 openings, cover attached; in Japanese, cover title same as map.
|
|
Language Code:
|
jpn
|
|
Language Name:
|
Japanese
|
|
Subject:
|
Early maps--Japan
|
|
Subject:
|
Roads--Japan--Tōkaidō--Maps
|
|
Subject:
|
Japan--1610-1920
|
|
Subject:
|
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
|
|
Subject:
|
Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868
|
|
Category of Material:
|
Manuscripts
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Maps
|
|
Technique Used:
|
Woodcut (process)
|
|
Medium:
|
Ink
|
|
Support:
|
Paper
|
|
Creation Site:
|
Japan
|
|
Style Period:
|
Edo Period
|
|
Time Period Covered:
|
17th Century CE
|
|
Places Covered:
|
Japan: Tokyo
|
|
Places Covered:
|
Japan: Osaka
|
|
Item Height:
|
265 mm
|
|
Item Width:
|
7800 mm
|
|
Current Repository:
|
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
|
|
Rights Holder - Image:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Rights holder - Work:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
References:
|
Kornicki, Peter F. "THE JAPANESE COLLECTION IN THE BIBLIOTHECA-LINDESIANA." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 75.2 (1993): 209
|
|
References:
|
Hasegawa, K. "Road atlases in early modern Japan and Britain." Geographic-al Studies & Japan, Japan Library (1993): 15-24
|
|
Notes:
|
The digitisation of this map has been generously funded by the Japan Foundation.
|
|
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
|
2015-12-08
|
|
Image Creation Technique:
|
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Academic Project Lead:
|
Erica Baffelli
|
|
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
|
2015-12-18
|
|
Educational Notes:
|
Japanese Maps Project - Part II
|