1943 Japanese World War II Map of Hawaii (text in Japanese)
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Description: One of the most beautiful maps of Hawaii ever produced. A stunning large format Japanese map of Hawaiian Island group dating to World War II. Covers the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands with a large inset city plan of Honolulu in the lower left quadrant. Another inset in the upper right quadrant shows the Hawaiian Islands relative to other Pacific Islands in the greater vicinity. Offers superb detail regarding both topographical and political elements. Notes cities, roads, trade routes on air, sea and land, and uses shading to display oceanic depths. Scale of 1:85,000. All text in Japanese. This map was created as part of a series of folding maps of parts of Asia and the Pacific prepared by the Japanese during World War II. This map is no. 18 in that series.
Date: 1942 (undated)
Source: Independent Issue.
References: None Found.
Cartographer: Japanese cartography appears as early as the 1600s. Japanese maps are known for their exceptional beauty and high quality of workmanship. Early Japanese cartography has its own very distinctive projection and layout system. Japanese maps made prior to the appearance of Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan in the mid to late 1850s often have no firm directional orientation, incorporate views into the map proper, and tend to be hand colored woodblock prints. This era, from the 1600s to the c. 1855, which roughly coincides with the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1603-1886), some consider the Golden Age of Japanese Cartography. Most maps from this period, which followed isolationist ideology, predictably focus on Japan. The greatest cartographer of the period, whose work redefined all subsequent cartography, was Ino Tadataka (1745 -1818). Ino's maps of Japan were so detailed that, when the European cartographers arrived they had no need, even with their far more sophisticated survey equipment, to remap the region. Later Japanese maps, produced in the late Edo and throughout the Meiji period, draw heavily upon western maps as models in both their content and overall cartographic style. While many of these later maps maintain elements of traditional Japanese cartography such as the use of rice paper, woodblock printing, and delicate hand color, they also incorporate western directional orientation, projection systems, and structural norms. Click here for a list of Japanese maps.
Size: Printed area measures 29 x 20 inches (73.66 x 50.8 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Original folds. Comes with original folder.
Code: Hawaii2-wwii-1943 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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