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Kimura Kesao (木村今朝男)


Kimura Kesao (木村今朝男; fl. c. 1937 - 1938) was a Japanese cartographer based in Shanghai who made maps of Shanghai and Nanjing in the late 1930s.
AKA: 木村今朝男
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Ambitious plan to remake Shanghai.

最新測繪大上海新地圖 / [Most Recent Survey Map of Greater Shanghai].

1938 (dated)
31 x 43 in (78.74 x 109.22 cm)
Shanghai-kimura-1938

$950.00

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This is a 1938 (Showa 13) Kimura Kesao city plan or map of the Great Shanghai Municipality. It was published soon after Japanese forces occupied the Chinese municipality in the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). It illustrates Japan's ambitious plan to relocate Shanghai's economic center farther north, into a completely new Japanese-built and designed city center. (more details)

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