Ikeda Toritei (1 results)

Kyoto 1835, Takehara. One of two colorful covers,very clean, minor old worming, folds restored, reinforced with acid-free Washi paper & rice glue, now solid, folds down to 15 x 21.3 cm., opens to 74.5 x 10 cm. R A R E A very nice color city map of Kyoto. A charming example, suitable for display & framing. The top is dominated by the huge and impressive Kiyomizu-dera [temple]. The only cities in Japan oriented neatly with streets going east and west, north to south were Nara and Kyoto, based on the Chinese model classical model of Xianthe ancient capital of China. It also shows Nijo castle, the Imperial Palace, where the Shoguns resided. * With large directional characters, at each edge, rivers in blue, the city was surrounded by a wall. Various colors differentiate the streets, rivers, moats and earthen embankments, all of which were built in 1591 by the Shogun, the most famous Toyotomi Hideyoshi. * THE CORRECTOR/AUTHOR/EDITOR: The editor Ikeda Tooritei [1788-1857] was a Kyoto author who also wrote guide books to Kyoto. He was also a celebrated and accomplished calligrapher. * ARTIST: The artist's name is found in the colophon in the lower left corner, reads Nakamura Yurakusai, a.k.a. Nagahide was his major "studio name" and he flourished ca. 1804-1848, was an Osaka-Kyoto Ukiyo-e printmaker. His works are well collected by world Museums, for more information, see Roberts below. * TITLE: As was common of the time such a famous city as Kyoto needed no title to inform viewers of the name of this all important capitol of Japan. The name was later added by bibliographers, who likely found it inscribed on the covers, or a paper envelope which most likely originally contained the map. Bibliographers below have rightly named it. The map was partially named for the era in which it was published, being Tempo [1830-1844] per Beans, p.21, supplement A. See Beans below for more bibliographical information * REFERENCES: BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA: lists this map on p.35, entry 1831.1 as KYO MACHI EZU HOSOMI TAISEI: DETAILED MAP OF THE CITY OF KYOTO, the artist was Nakamura Yurakusai, corrected by Ikeda Toritei of Edo, published by Bunsodo Takehara Kobei, Kyoto, Tempo 2 [1831], color printed, states size was 104 x 177 cm. It is important to point out, that Beans only listed items that had a date written on them. In our example, there is no title, no date, no censor's seal to indicate a date, so one is led to believe that the copy Beans inspected had a date. He never broke his own rule of only listing dated items. * NANBA, Matsutaro. ed. et al. OLD MAPS IN JAPAN: illustrates this exact maps, as a color foldout at the read of the book and has text on p.220 item, plate #90. He clearly states his copy to be "newly revised and supplemented in the Tempo Era by Ikeda Toritei, published by Takehara Kobe, in Kyoto, ca. 1835. * CORTAZZI, Hugh. ISLES OF GOLD: ANTIQUE MAPS OF JAPAN: this exact map is color illustrated as his example #56, on pp. 128-9. Cortazzi mistakenly attributes this work to the publisher: Takehara, while Namba [see below] correctly attributes this work to Ikeda Toritei, and was published per Namba to Takehara Koabe in Kyoto, ca 1835.hara Yoshibei, who was the publisher see p.129. * ROBERTS, Laurance P. A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS PAINTING, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS, PRINTS, LACQUER: see page 115, lower right column. He also used the "studio name" Chooshuu among several others including Yurakusai. His actual name per Roberts was probably Nakamura Aritsune or Arichika. *. …