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Subject: MAPS-L: Fw: Historic Japanese Maps:  A Wonderful Tour and Talk
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:55:35 -0500
From: Angie Cope, AGSL <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


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>>The Starr East Asian Library, The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture,
>>and the NCC Present
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>>Hisayuki Ishimatsu
>>Head of Japanese Collections, UC Berkeley
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>>A digital tour of the
>>UC Berkeley Japanese Historical Maps
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>>Wednesday, November 2, 2005
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>>203 BUTLER LIBRARY
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>>This online collection includes about 100 maps and books, drawn from the
>>collection of 2,298 maps assembled by Mitsui Takakata (pen name: Soken)
>>(1882-1950), the 9th head of the Shinmachi branch of the family. The most
>>unusual part of the collection is the 697 woodblock-print maps dating from
>>the Tokugawa period (1600-1867).
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>>The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu and scanned and put online by
>>David Rumsey and Cartography Associates. The Japanese Historical Maps
>>Website is ideal for teaching and research about Japan and can be found at
>>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EAL/japanese_maps.html.
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>>This program is made possible by support from the C. V. Starr East Asian
>>Library and the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and a grant from
>>the Japan Foundation to the North American Coordinating Council on
>>Japanese Library Resources to support instruction on electronic resources
>>for research and teaching in Japanese and East Asian studies.  For further
>>information about the NCC and its programs please visit its website at
>>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc
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>>Dr. Amy V. Heinrich
>>Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library
>>Columbia University
>>Vice Chair, Japan-US Friendship Commission
>>Phone: 212.854.1508
>>Fax:   212.662.6286
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