About The Collection
The collection of maps in the website is a selection from the map collection of the East Asian Library of University of California at Berkeley. The university came into possession of these maps when it purchased the Mitsui Library from the Mitsui family in 1949. The library contained a collection of 2,298 maps assembled by Mitsui Takakata. The majority of maps in this collection date from the Edo period through the early Meiji period. The collection has several unique collections, among them approximately 697 woodblock-print maps from the Tokugawa shogunate. In the selection of maps available on the website, the earliest image is from 1600, and the latest image is from 1970.
The selection of maps available on the website were digitized using PhaseOne digital scanning cameras, and scanned at a minimum of 300 pixels per inch. Because of the high scanning resolution, the average image size is approximately 200 megabytes on full scan. The images are then resized so that they may be manipulated easily.
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