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Image Number: 
JRL16020997
Reference Number: 
Japanese 165
Parent Work Title: 
Honchō zukan kōmoku
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Outline map of our country [Japan]
Creator: 
Ishikawa, Tomonobu
Creator Role: 
Artist
Date Created: 
18th century
Page/Sheet: 
Frame 1
Image Sequence Number: 
005
Image Sequence Total: 
007
Description: 
First of 2 digital sections: Atlas of Japan by Ishikawa Tomonobu. Published at some time in the early 18th century and reprinted with revisions some time between 1717 and 1724.
Language Code: 
jpn
Language Name: 
Japanese
Subject: 
Early maps--Japan
Subject: 
Atlases--Japan
Subject: 
Cartography--Japan--History--Maps
Subject: 
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
Subject: 
Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Maps
Technique Used: 
Woodcut (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
Japan
Style Period: 
Edo Period
Time Period Covered: 
18th Century CE
Places Covered: 
Japan
Item Height: 
703 mm
Item Width: 
1674 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Kornicki, Peter F. "The Japanese collection in the Bibliotheca-Lindesiana." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 75.2 (1993): 209-300. 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 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2016-02-08
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Academic Project Lead: 
Erica Baffelli
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2016-02
Educational Notes: 
Japanese Maps Project - Part III