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Japanese world map 倭節用悉改袋増字 文政元年　[A Comprehensive Dictionary of Japanese (Yamato setsuyo shikkai bukuro zoji). Koto Shorin, dated Bunsei gannen tsuchinoe tora kugatsu shinkoku (Newly printed in August of the fifteenth year of the sexagenary cycle, 1818)] 265 x 190mm., 158ff., woodblock printed with small illustrations throughout, double-page world map, compiled by Matano Michinao (dates unknown), with illustrations by Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1750), Nishimura Chuwa (active circa 1799- 1818) and Hayami Shungyosa (dates unknown), cloth covers, stitched Setsuyoshu [lit. economical collections] have been popularly disseminated as practical dictionaries since the Muromachi period (1336-1573). The entries are arranged in the traditional iroha ordering of the Japanese syllabary​, in accordance with the Japanese phonetic script hiragana, and are further divided into semantic categories. The continual republishing of new editions of this text throughout the Edo period is consistent with the very high literacy rate often associated with the time period. The double-page world map shows geography and cartography from a much earlier period: California is shown as an island (a very late depiction of this), and Australia is joined to Papua New Guinea and Antarctica. For an earlier 18th century edition of this dictionary in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, object number 2019-4-103, go to: https://art.honolulumuseum.org/objects/65639/comprehensive-dictionary-of-japanese-yamato-setsuyo-shikkaiCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The