Murakami Goyū (sold) (村上吾雄)
Murakami Goyū (村上吾雄; fl. 1828 - 1855) was a Japanese cartographer based in Edo (Tokyo). He made a series of plans of neighborhoods of Edo and was involved in the production of an important world map from the early Bakumatsu period (1853 – 1867) (titled 萬國地球圖).
AKA: 村上吾雄
World map from the earliest moments in Japan's modernization.
萬國地球圖 : 全 / [Complete Map of the Globe].
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This is a rare c. 1853 world map by Mineta Fūkō and Hashimoto Sadahide produced at roughly the same time that Japan was thrown open to outside influences as a result of American 'gunboat diplomacy.' It reflects Japanese geographic knowledge on the boundary between two eras, the end of Japan's self-imposed semi-isolation and the beginning of its rapid engagement with the outside world. (more details)