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Fascinating Japanese Pictorial Map of the World, published in 1926.
Fascinating allegorical map of the world. The insular Japanese culture now sees its place not just in Asia, but across the globe. Perhaps we can see the growing sense of empire in a simple perspective like this pictorial board game, where Japanese culture is not "out of place" or uniquely exotic, but has a place.
A vignette reflects the growning ex-pat community in South America, which would become influential in the region, not just in Brazil, but Peru as well. Similarly, there is a vignette of an Asian woman in the latest Parisian styles in Europe. These are Japanese people experiencing the world and having a place in it.
While the map is reminiscent of many European pictorial mapmakers of the 1930's, it predates the works of Lucien Boucher which seem stylistically similar.
