Mineta Fūkō (sold) (嶺田楓江)
Mineta Fūkō (嶺田楓江; 1818 - 1883) – was a Japanese scholar, most famous for publishing a multi-volume work in 1849 titled New Tales from Abroad (海外新話) about the Opium War, and more generally about the major changes in the global balance of power towards Europe. The book sent shockwaves through Japanese intellectual circles and the Tokugawa government set out to censor it, seizing any copy they could find, destroying the woodblocks used to publish it, and arresting Mineta. However, hand-copied versions continued to circulate, unsettling Japanese intellectuals but preparing them somewhat for the arrival of American warships in Tokyo Bay in 1853.
AKA: 嶺田楓江
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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- File Size: 17.53 MB
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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)