Zōho Ōsaka-zu 増補大坂圖 [増補大坂図]

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N. p., n.d. [Genroku 1 元禄元年, 1688 ?] . No kanki, but cyclical date 辰歳 on title slip almost certainly indicates Genroku 1, 1688. Description: 1 sheet (folding map) in a box. 840 x 900 mm. Blockprint. Printing frame 695 x 900 mm. No borders. Text-matter in kanji and hiragana. Original dark blue covers of folded map (181 x 105 mm.), with original printed title slip centrally placed. Gedai: 辰歳 (角書) 増補大坂圖. No naidai. Edition: Apparently the only edition with this title. Preceded by editions of Meireki 3 (1657) and Enpō 6 (1678), both entitled Shinpan Ōsaka no zu 新板大坂之圖, and followed by an edition of Zōho Ōsaka-zu 増補大坂圖 (without tsunogaki) published in Ōsaka by Yorozuya Hikotarō in Genroku 14 (1701). Contents: Detailed street plan of Ōsaka, indicating temples and shrines, yashiki of daimyō, street names changed in Enpō 9 延宝九年 (1681), and distances from other places.

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Purchased from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer by Sir Hans Sloane 1723-1725 and incorporated in the British Museum in 1753.

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). C. Japanese works 和書 8. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃

Tōhoku daigaku fuzoku toshokan betchibon mokuroku 東北大学附属図書館別置本目録, p. 53.