Scroll (385 x 8560 mm.), with fine colored paintings, using brush, ink, & various colors of wash, of the route and major features along the way. [Japan:] mid-Edo.

The route from Edo (today’s Tokyo) to Nagasaki (and vice versa), by land and by sea, was one of the major thoroughfares and trade routes of Edo-period Japan. The Dutch and Chinese had been allowed to establish exclusive trading outposts in Nagasaki, and Edo was the heart of domestic commerce and administration. Foreign goods, especially silks, other luxury items, raw materials useful to the military, and medicinal goods, flowed through Nagasaki to... More