Sonia Favi<\/p>" }, { "label": "Publication", "value": "Tōto [Edo]: Owariya Seishichi" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "京橋南築地鉄炮洲絵図; Man'en kaisei shinsen Kyōbashi minami Tsukiji Teppōsu ezu; 万延改正新鐫京橋南築地鉄炮洲絵図; Bunkyū shinkoku Kyōbashi minami Tsukiji Teppōsu ezu; 文久新刻京橋南築地鉄炮洲絵図; Translated title: Map of Kyōbashi minami, Tsukiji and Teppōsu" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Map height: 500 mm, width: 540 mm. Folded height: 165 mm, width: 90 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Japanese 200d" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Early maps--Japan; Cartography--Japan--History--Maps; Tokyo (Japan); Kantō Region (Japan)" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
Wood-block printed, commercial map of the districts of Kyōbashi minami, Tsukiji and Teppōsu in the city of Edo, in Japanese, one sheet, folded, oriented with north to the top. The title is reported in the upper left section of the map, with the subtitle Man'en kaisei shinsen (万延改正新鐫 Revised and newly engraved in the Man'en era). The same title appears, but with the subtitle \"Bunkyū Shinkoku\" (文久新刻 Newly engraved in the Bunkyū era. The Man'en era ended and the Bunkyū era started in 1861) on the surviving envelope, which also reports that the map was published in Tōto (\"Eastern capital\", i.e. Edo).<\/p>
A colophon in the lower right section reports the name of the author, Kageyama Muneyasu, the date of first publication Bunkyū 1 (1861) and the name of the publisher, Owariya Seishichi. It was part of the series Ōedo kiriezu (大江戸切絵図, Sectional pictorial map of Great Edo). A legend in the upper left section illustrates the icons (symbols and distinct colours) used on the map for different types of warrior mansions, roads and bridges, tradesmen's houses and shops, shrines and other topographical features.<\/p>
The map is printed in five colours and, as was common, uses pictorial representation to highlight elements of the cityscape, such as shrines. By the late Edo or Tokugawa period (1603-1868), maps of Edo had become commonplace, and new, sectional (and therefore very detailed) maps of the city became popular. They reflected the growth of the Edo metropolis and how commoners such as wealthy merchants, with their culture and lifestyle, had gained relevance within it. In these sets, the city lose its centre (usually identified with Edo-castle and the warrior district in one-sheet maps) and every part of the city is represented with equal importance. The shogunal vassal Sena Sadao (1716-1796) first drew a set of 8 small-sheet maps, on a scale of 1 : 5000, but they still only covered the central part of Edo.<\/p>
The maps were published from 1755 to 1775 by Kichimonjiya Jirobē. Later, in 1848-1855, another Edo publisher, Omiya Gohē, revised the series and enlarged it to 35 sheets, based on the map-making work of Takashiba San\u2019yū and Murakami Goyū. In 1850, the publisher Owariya Seishichi started releasing his own set, consisting of 31 maps published in the 1850s and 1860s (all present in the Japanese 200 series, with the exception of a map of Hatchōbori), and the series became the most popular one. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "