Koyama Kichizo (小山吉三)
Koyama Kichizō (小山吉三; fl. c. 1929 - 1942) was a prolific cartographer who produced several dozen maps dealing primarily with Japan's expanding empire in Korea, China, and Southeast Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. He founded and often collaborated with Nihon Meisho Zuesha (日本名所圖繪社), a printing agency that published maps of famous sites in the Japanese home islands and throughout the empire.
AKA: 小山吉三
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)