Kobayashi Matashichi (小林又七)
Kobayashi Matashichi (小林又七; fl. c. 1905 - 1943) was a prolific cartographer and publisher based in Tokyo who primarily made and published maps of Japan's growing empire in East Asia (Korea, Manchuria, China). He often worked with the publisher and distributor Senryūdō (川流堂, sometimes as 川流所).
AKA: 小林又七
Massive Pre-War map of Japan's imperial ambitions.
最新南支南洋大地圖 / [Latest Map of Southern China, Southeast Asia, and Northern Australia].
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This is a very large and rare 1937 Kobayashi Matashichi map of southern China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific. The map anticipates Japanese interest in this vast and resource-rich region, an area soon to be engulfed in the Pacific War (1941 - 1945) and subsumed to Japanese imperial ambitions. Given its tremendous size and detail, it is likely this map was prepared for internal military use in anticipation of Japanese expansion into the Pacific, the East Indies, Southeast Asia, and China. Centered on the strategically critical Philippine Islands, coverage extends from Korea to Australia and from the Bay of Bengal to Micronesia. (more details)