[SHIMADA KEIZŌ, ILLUSTRATED BY]. 島田啓三画.

世界パノラマ大地圖. [Sekai Panorama Daichizu].
[Large Panoramic Map of the World].

東京. [Tokyo]. 大日本雄弁会講談社. [Dainihon Yubenkai Kodansha]. Showa 8 [ 1933]. Stock ID #208728

Delightful large folding pictorial colour world map published as a supplement to Shonen Kurabu (少年倶楽部) v. 20, no. 12. 79 x 109.5cm. A very good copy. Very good condition; map has additional light creasing from one corner having been lightly creased when map was folded.

A children's map of the world, its charming quality belying the propagandistic period when it was produced. The map which was illustrated by Shimada Keizo (1900-1973), is covered with small pictographs representing the resources of countries around the world. Japanese territories and protectorates are marked in red.

The general editor, whose name gave legitimacy to the publication was Satō Yasutarō 佐藤保太郎 (1893-1977), a professor at Tokyo University of Education. A wealth of information is given both pictorially and through brief captions. For example, the red characters below the ship sailing off the SE coast of Australia tell the viewer that lamb wool & meats are exported – this information is repeated below the ships located at Auckland & Wellington. Wheat exports are represented by the ship off the tip of Western Australia, and the commodity is indicated by sacks of flour. Gold mining, cattle ranching can also be seen, as well as representations of platypus and wombats. Pearl divers are seen near Broome and the Coral Sea. In the Western Hemisphere, Bermuda is indicated by the British flag held aloft by a Royal Navy sailor on a boat near a caption in red saying coral reef; on the opposite side, the US fleet of battleships [戦艦船隊 senkan sentai] is shown by five steel-grey ships south of Baja California. The Rocky Mountains are the backdrop for the largest figures on the continent; Native Americans and African Americans. A ship shows cotton exports offshore from Galveston; flags of many countries fly over Central American nations. A young man holding a red-covered book stands behind a white towered hall over the name Boston and a caption in red reads daigaku 大学 university representing many institutions rather than one in particular.

An inset map of the world shows colonial possessions including Japanese territories in Micronesia.

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Price: $750.00 AU

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