A Japanese world map woodblock print, Sekai bankoku Nihon yori kaijo risu ojo jimbutsu (Pictorial map of distances from Japan, the names of many lands and their people)
Unknown author and publisher, late Edo period, 1800-1850
Colour woodblock print, 38.5 cm x 49.2 cm
A rare and beautiful primitive-style Japanese world map with portraits of foreign people including North American, South American, Dutch, Indian, Chinese and Korean. Other figures represent fictional lands such as a country populated only by women, and folklore-inspired depictions of a giant, a cyclops and a lilliput.
Colour woodblock print, 38.5 cm x 49.2 cm
A rare and beautiful primitive-style Japanese world map with portraits of foreign people including North American, South American, Dutch, Indian, Chinese and Korean. Other figures represent fictional lands such as a country populated only by women, and folklore-inspired depictions of a giant, a cyclops and a lilliput.
Part of the Japan collection.
