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(Japan) Hayashi, Yoshinaga (publisher). Shinsen zoho Kyo oezu (A newly revised map of Kyoto & its surroundings) Kyo (Kyoto) Hayashi-shi Yoshinaga, c 1714-1717. Handcoloured woodblock printed map.(Overall size: 124 x 162cm; print area: 121 x158.8 cm) Surrounding mountain-scape outlined pictorially in shades of red, green and mauve; water-ways and city streets in yellow. With descriptions of main temples and shines, distance charts, indexes. Text in Japanese. Folded in original blue paper wrapper on soft cardboard (23.5 x 15.8cm); calligraphic title slip pasted on upper cover; edges worn; some wear and minor damage to intersecting folds, a few small tears, occasional light stains, but generally well preserved. Cloth folder. A large, revised 18th century tourist guide-map of Kyoto as imperial capital documenting the city in its prime before its destruction in the great fire of 1788. The Chinese influenced grid pattern layout is marked by a central axis from the south to the Imperial Palace in the north east. The guide contains entries on the residences of the daimyo, or feudal lords, and on the origins and history of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines with details of sizes and location of individual Buddhas; including a number of world heritage sites : Golden Pavillion (north west), Enryaku-ji temple (north east), Kiyomukzu temple, and Sanjūsangen-Dō (Temple of a 1000 Buddhas)(south east). Charts indicate distances from the Sanjo Obashi bridge on the Kamo river (south). The publisher, Yoshinaga Hayashi, moved from Osaka, and here gives his new address in Kyoto. Yamashita, Japanese Maps, page 132; Kazutaka Unno, History of Cartography, Book 2, Volume 2, page 346; Namba, Old maps of Japan, 68; cf. UC Berkeley, Japanese Historical Maps, (numerous editions). Seller Inventory # ABE-7575306505864750415
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