A large, Japanese, woodblock, wall map of Japan attributed to Sekisui Nagakubo, but a later edition of 1852 with contributions by Kien Suzuki and Bunjiro Izumoji.

Nagakubo is considered to be one of the great Japanese cartographers, raised to the rank of Samurai due to his scholarship. He was mainly active in the late 18th century and produced his first map of Japan in 1780, the Kaisei Nihon yochi rotei zenzu, [Revised Route Map of Japan]. This map was notable for being the first to use lines of latitude and longitude. He also named over five thousand settlements and added shipping routes along the coast. It is perceived as one of the major geographical achievements in Japanese cartography.

Sekisui died in 1801 but his map was both re-issued and copied regularly in the Tokugawa period.

This example is dated to 1852 and has two further names associated with it, Kien Suzuki and Bunjiro Izumoji, who is usually cited as a publisher. Original colour. [SEAS5477]