Followup of Hatsusaburou Yoshida. Japanese map painter Hatsusaburou Yoshida (1884-1955) succeeded in Taisho to Souwa era. He left 3000 map of Japan in his life.
Unlike the map today, Hatsusaburou's map is unrealistic and very about written. I didn't know about him until yesterday, abut I kinda like his map. It is fun to see places that exist today in a old map of Japan. Also It is fun because in Hatsusaburou's map, places so far apart is written. In this picture, way in the horizon, there is Hawaii. Isn't is charming? Too bad this Picture is small. I couldn' t find a bigger map.
It is impossible to see Hawaii from Japan, but Hatsusabrou wrote it on the map. I bet it exited people in that age. I think people that age, didn't think about Hawaii in daily life, but when they look at the map they remember that there is Hawaii and imagines as if they are there. It is like, imaging as if you are there by looking at a travel book. Actually, Hatsutaro's maps were soled to traveling company for pamphlet, so it was like a travel book today.
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Wikipedia Hatsusabou Yoshida
Hatsusabou Yoshida and Choukanzu (images fome here)
