Illustrated Scroll On Paper Entitled On Manuscript Label On Outside Of The Beginning Edo Yori

by Edo To Nagasaki Trade Routes

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 385 x 8560 mm. , with fine colored paintings, using brush, ink, & various colors of wash, of the route and major features along the way. Japan: mid-Edo. The route from Edo today’s Tokyo to Nagasaki and vice versa , by land and by sea, was one of the major thoroughfares and trade routes of Edo-period Japan. The Dutch and Chinese had been allowed to establish exclusive trading outposts in Nagasaki, and Edo was the heart of domestic commerce

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