Map Week #1 - Wakayama, c.1959
Map: Nichi Shuppan, c.1959 (detail)
If you don’t get to travel as frequently as you’d like — sigh — then looking at maps is the next best thing. In fact it’s often better, travel being a foretaste of hell as Bruce Chatwin has the Bedouin saying somewhere. I wasn’t pining for distant lands (beyond my constant underbuzz of pining for distant lands) but rather trying to get a collection of colours together for a project I’m working on. The dominant inspirational theme is turning out to be geo-colours, so I wondered what the colours of cartography could contribute.
This is Nichi Shuppan’s map of Wakayama (where I’ve never been) from their Shin Nihon Bunken Chizu series (New Japan Prefecture Maps) published in the late ’50s (it sold for ¥40).
Not terribly subtle colouring but not hideous. The typography is handsome.
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Posted to Other Places • 2003.06.27 (Fri) • 10:58
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