Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
CJS Noon Lecture Series
Mapping Edo’s Districts during the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Richard A. Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art, MacLean Collection, Chicago
The U-M’s Clark Library map collection includes a number of important and interesting woodblock printed maps produced in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1868). The UM collection includes a series of 26 pocket maps of the districts in and around the city of Edo. Primarily attributed to Owariya Seishichi, Masanori Tomatsu and Muneyasu, the set became known as the Edo Kiri ezu. The first imprint was so popular that it was reprinted in its entirety in 1857 and 1870. This lecture will discuss these maps of the city of Edo during the final decades of the Edo Period in the context of the work of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Richard A. Pegg is the Museum and Map Library Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Literature at George Washington University, and his PhD in East Asian Art History at Columbia University. He has published a number of books, exhibition catalogs, articles, and reviews on a broad range of topics related to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art history. His recent publications include The Chinese Jar (2015), a novel; Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps (2014); and Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (2012), winner of the 2012 AIGA 50 Books award and an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Alliance of American Museums (AAM) Publications Design Competition.
The U-M’s Clark Library map collection includes a number of important and interesting woodblock printed maps produced in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1868). The UM collection includes a series of 26 pocket maps of the districts in and around the city of Edo. Primarily attributed to Owariya Seishichi, Masanori Tomatsu and Muneyasu, the set became known as the Edo Kiri ezu. The first imprint was so popular that it was reprinted in its entirety in 1857 and 1870. This lecture will discuss these maps of the city of Edo during the final decades of the Edo Period in the context of the work of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Richard A. Pegg is the Museum and Map Library Director and Curator of Asian Art at the MacLean Collection in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Literature at George Washington University, and his PhD in East Asian Art History at Columbia University. He has published a number of books, exhibition catalogs, articles, and reviews on a broad range of topics related to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art history. His recent publications include The Chinese Jar (2015), a novel; Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps (2014); and Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection (2012), winner of the 2012 AIGA 50 Books award and an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Alliance of American Museums (AAM) Publications Design Competition.
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