Katsugoro Harimaya (播磨屋勝五郎)
Katsugoro Harimaya (播磨屋勝五郎; fl. c. 1850 - 1865) was a Japanese publisher and bookseller at the Edo Nihonbashi Dori Juken store. Harimaya is known for publishing many books related to Ezo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
AKA: 播磨屋勝五郎
Defending the borders in the wake of Commodore Perry.
蝦夷闔境輿地全圖 / [Complete Map of All Lands within the Borders of Ezo].
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This is an important 1854 (Kaei 7) Japanese Edo period Fujita Ryou chromoxylographic map illustrating Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. It was issued following the 1853 arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry, anticipating the opening of Hakodate as one of the five Japanese treaty ports. (more details)