KYOTO, City Map (Kyo oezu). By Hayashi Yoshinaga, dated 1699 (reprinted ca.1800).

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KYOTO, City Map (Kyo oezu). By Hayashi Yoshinaga, dated 1699 (reprinted ca.1800).

1650 x 1230mm (folded to 240 x 160mm), on paper, printed in black with yellow, orange, blue and green colouring, in original brown wrappers, with paper label (tear to one panel of map). In later wooden boards.

The map shows the whole of Kyoto, with residential areas, shrines, temples and lords' residences, as well as notable places in the suburbs. Hayashi was a well known map publisher in Kyoto in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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