Murase Kaemon (村瀨嘉右衛門)
Murase Kaemon (村瀨嘉右衛門; fl. c. 1879 – 1881) was a Japanese publisher involved with the production of a world map engraved on the back of a large mirror housed in the Kitano Tenmangū (北野天満宮), a prominent Shinto shrine in Kyoto dedicated to Tenjin (天神).
AKA: 村瀨嘉右衛門
A lost map...
北野天満大神 / [The Great 'Kami' of Kitano Shrine].
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- File Size: 87.3 MB
- File Type: ZIP / TIFF
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This is a unique rubbing of a Meiji 13 or 1880 map of the Eastern Hemisphere from a carving on the back of a bronze mirror at Kitano Tenmangū Shrine, Kyoto. The mirror and the map were given by the Nissan Nagamori-kō to the Kitano Tenmangū Shrine in 1880. Nonetheless, the map was forgotten until 2015, when it was rediscovered by shrine caretakers, but this rubbing dates to the early Meiji, shortly after the mirror-map was carved. This rubbing was thus likely done for or by one of the Nissan Nagamori-kō, or possibly a pilgrim to the shine shortly after it was donated, but before the mirror was mounted - hiding the map and making all further rubbings impossible. (more details)