Tall scroll on paper depicting in great detail, using bright colors, the entrance & port of Nagasaki, mounted on modern paper

by Nagasaki Port Map

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 535 x 2790 mm. , pale brown silk on outer front endpaper, inside covered with gold paper, wooden core roller. Japan : late Edo, 1855 or later. While Edo was the center of government and Osaka the national market hub, Nagasaki was an extremely important center of commerce, crafts, and travel. It is no wonder that Nagasaki became the locus for trade with the rest of the world during the Tokugawa era: the port, facing China and near Korea, is at the

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