MATERIAL: Cherry Wood
TYPE: Print Block (Hangi)
DIMENSIONS: 6 X 9 inches (block)
6 1/4 X 9 1/4 (document)
COMPONENTS: Print block, 34 page hand written document.
CONDITION: Quite rare and in great condition.
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 1080
Print Block of Chiba Coastline and Railway System
DATE
Year: 1894
Decade: 1890s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: Meiji 27
Unique Japanese woodblock print ‘Hangi’ (printing block) for a map of the coast of Chiba showing a railway system from the shoreline inland. It comes with the original documents proposing this new railway line, which has two hand drawn maps of the proposal and a 34 page hand written document with signatures and seals of town and area officials.
According to scholar Sugihiko Uchida, “Apparently the appeal for new prefectural roads (not railroads) submitted by several village mayors to the prefectural governors.”
Asia/Africa
This collection houses art and artifacts from China, Ethiopia, India and Japan.
