Idemitsu Mamoru (出光衛)
Idemitsu Mamoru (出光衛; 1938 - 1940) was a cartographer active in Shanghai in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Little is known about his life and training, or even his nationality (he might have been Chinese, in which case his name would be pronounced Chu Guangwei), but he was affiliated with the publisher and bookseller Shiseidō 至誠堂 and may have been the manager of the company's Shanghai branch, located in the heavily Japanese Hongkou neighborhood. His known surviving works include a map of Nanjing and Suzhou published soon after those cities' capture by Japanese forces in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
AKA: 出光衛
City of Gardens and Canals, and Headquarters of the Counter-Insurgency.
蘇州 / [Suzhou].
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This is an unrecorded c. 1938 Koyama Kichizō bird's eye view of Suzhou, China. It presents a lovely overview of the resplendent ancient city but also obscures the ongoing hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which the city was occupied in late 1937. (more details)