Nihon Kaisan Chorikuzu Or Nihon Oezu Or Dai Nihonkoku No Zu Maps Of The Seas Lands Of Japan

by Tomonobu Ishikawa Or Ryusen

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Woodblock-printed map 830 x 1715 mm. , finely hand-colored. Edo: Sagamiya Tahei 相模屋太兵衞, 1697. The 1697 printing of Ishikawa’s famous map of Japan; a less complex printing was first issued in 1691 an earlier version with a different title appeared in 1689 . The series of maps published by Ishikawa, an ukiyo-e artist, “established a model for woodblock maps throughout most of the eighteenth century. Works based on Ishikawa's

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