According to Original Surveys and Designs by Dr. Edmund Naumann ; assisted by Takao Fujitani, Akira Yamada, Ichitaro Ban, Shogo Nishiyama ; engraved by S. Takenouchi, K. Umemura and K. Watanabe. Large folding colour lithograph map backed on cloth. Measuring 82x120cm. Overall in very good condition. Tokyo, Toyodo Engraving Office, 1886.
Edmund Heinrich Naumann (1854-1922) was born in Germany and came to Japan at the behest of the Meiji Government. He was the first professor of Geology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. At the behest of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (Noshomusho) he became involved in the process of systematically mapping the Japanese Archipelago.
