Ōsaka ōezu 大坂大繪圖 [大坂大絵図]

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.f.17
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1699
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 sheet Condition: Fair to good. Paper is thin and needs re-backing at folds. Impression: Blocks show little sign of wear. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: See under Provenance below.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Shinsen zōho ōsaka ōezu 新撰増補大坂大繪圖 [新撰増補大坂大絵図]. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Edo] , Hayashi Yoshinaga, Genroku 12, 1699. Kanki at lower right-hand corner of map reads: 元禄十二年九月下旬 御繪圖所林氏吉永. Daisen bears the date Genroku 11, 1698. Description: 1 folding map made up of 15 sheets pasted together, 5 vertical x 3 horizontal, in a box. 120.8 × 138.7 cm. Blockprint. Printing frame 119.3 x 138 cm. Single-line borders. Text-matter in kanji for place names, with hiragana-majiri for kango and table of distances. Original dark blue covers (23.3 x 15.5 cm.) with original printed title slip centrally placed. Gedai: Shinsen zōho (tsunogaki) Ōsaka ōezu 新撰増補 (角書) 大坂大繪圖. On left of gedai: 新地入元禄十一寅. No naidai. Edition: One of many editions published by Hayashi Yoshinaga in Jōkyō 貞享 and Genroku 元禄 periods. Contents: Large-scale street plan of Ōsaka, hand-coloured in yellow, green, blue and mauve. Table in panel at bottom right gives distances of places near Ōsaka. Kango in same panel, before kanki, refers to the earlier edition of Jōkyō 3 (1686), revised in the present edition.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Note on paper slip pasted to back cover reads: Ex dono dni / Joannis / Wessenberg / 1812. Details of acquisition not known.

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).C.Japanese works 和書 10.Geography and topography 地理・地誌 c.Maps 地図

Bibliography

A list of Japanese maps of the Tokugawa era, pp. 15-6, Supplement A, p. 11; Ōsaka furitsu toshokan-zō Ōsaka chizu mokuroku 大阪府立図書館蔵大阪地図目録, p. 6.