Iedo

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Article ID ASN170

Title

Iedo

Description

General and beautiful total view of Edo/Tokyo.

Year

dated 1669

Artist

Montanus (1625-1683)

Arnold Montanus (1625-1683) was a Dutch theologian and historian. In addition to extensive editorial work, he has written numerous historical treatises dealing with the peoples and culture of the New World and the overseas activities of the Dutch. Although he never left Europe himself, his books, translated into many languages, had a great influence on the European perception of the area concerned. De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (The Unknown New World) and Gedenkwardige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maatschappy in′t Vereenigde Nederland (Memorable Embassies of the East Indian Society in the United Netherlands) are his best known writings. He published Guiccardini's description of the Netherlands in Dutch in 1612, translated Giovanni Gioviano Pontano's (Pontanus) description of the trading city of Amsterdam from Latin in 1614, and published Mercator's Cosmographicae Meditationes in 1621. The additions to the text in Hondius' edition of Mercator's great atlas are probably also from his pen. Montanus bought seafarers and employees of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) information and travel reports, and published them in 1669 in the publishing house of Jacob van Meurs (1619–1680).

Historical Description

According to archaeological finds, the urban area was already populated in the Stone Age. Tokyo was originally a small fishing port under its own name Edo. Around 1457 the last Daimyō Ōta Dōkan a castle was built near the village. The settlement only gained importance in 1590 when it became the property of the Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616). The city's history began in 1446, when Dta Dōkan began building Edo Castle in a swamp on the north bank of what is now Tokyo Bay, according to some fishing villages. In 1590 this castle went to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded his new Shogunate and thus the Edo period after his victory in the Battle of Sekigahara. In addition to Kyoto, Edo became the political and central center of the country. With the Meiji restoration in 1868, the Shogunate was lost and the seat of the Tennō moved to Edo, the castle became the Imperial Palace and Edo got its new name Tokyo, the Eastern Capital. From then on, one of the city's population, who was one of the world's representatives with two million units around 1910.

Place of Publication London
Dimensions (cm)29 x 77 cm
ConditionVery good
Coloringcolored
TechniqueCopper print

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