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Maeda Matashirō (前田又四郎)


Maeda Matashirō (前田又四郎; fl. c. 1866 - 1867) was a cartographer with the Rikugunsho (陸軍所), the Army Ministry of the Tokugawa Shogunate in its final years. His only known surviving work is a Japanese reproduction of a Russian map of Siberia, the Russian Far East, and Alaska.
AKA: 前田又四郎
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The first official Japanese regional map using western cartographic technology. A wonder of copper engraving!

峨羅斯及亞西亞ノ圖 / [Map of Russia and Asia].

1867 (dated)
30 x 48 in (76.20 x 121.92 cm)
RussiaAlaskaAsia-matsudaira-1867

$12,000.00

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An extraordinary 1867 (Keio 3) map of Siberia and Alaska illustrates a moment of cultural collision and transformation. Printed in Japan using a remarkable multi-color copperplate process, the map is a conic projection covering Asia from the Caspian Sea to the Bering Strait. It extends farther east to include Alaska, and south to encompass Nepal, Korea, Tibet, most of China, and all of Japan. This is the first Japanese regional map to incorporate contemporaneous western cartographic technology for official strategic and military use. (more details)

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