Matsudaira Norikata
Matsudaira Norikata (松平乗謨, December 18, 1839 – January 26, 1910) was a Japanese daimyo, military leader, and statesman in the late Edo and Meiji periods. Matsudaira was an early proponent of rapid military modernization and ending the Tokugawa's sakoku isolationist policies. His efforts to modernize the Shogun's armies faced resistance and were only partially successful. When a civil war began between the Tokugawa and supporters of the emperor, he retired rather than fight against imperial forces. He was therefore an ideal transitional figure between the old regime and the new government. Matsudaira (who changed his surname to Ogyu 大給, his clan's original surname before being entrusted by the Tokugawa as Mastudaira) went on to carry out a range of tasks related to military modernization and received many awards from the Meiji government, including becoming a member of the Privy Council late in life.
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].
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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)