Fuji-san shinkei hira ezu [A true bird's eye view of Mount Fuji]
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content: NAA INV 10000094

USNM Ethnology Catalog 398560
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content: Mt. Fuji dated 1877
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content: MS 7144 Lispenard Seabury Crocker collection of Japanese maps
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content: 1 Print (color woodblock, 38 x 37.75 inches mounted on 42 x 42.5 inches)
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content: 1877
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content: Map-folder 7
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Graphic Materials
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content: Prints
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content: A mountaineer's guide map in the form of a flattened cone with certain features shown with overlays. Included are pictures of climbers in poses representing various mountaineering stages, a representation of the climber's torch used at the annual fire festival held on 21 July, the closing date for mountaineers, and distances from various points to the mountain top. Inscriptions idenify religious, historical, and scenic areas in the region. There are also portraits of two pioneer climbers: Itō Ihei at age 63 and Fujiwara Takekuni at age 106.