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Digital Image: 1904 Kisaburō Ohara Satirical Octopus Map of Asia and Europe
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Title
A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu.
1904 (dated) 16.5 x 22.5 in (41.91 x 57.15 cm) 1 : 21710000
1904 (dated) 16.5 x 22.5 in (41.91 x 57.15 cm) 1 : 21710000
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Ohara Kisaburō (小原喜三郎; c. 1885 - 1949) was a prominent Japanese legal scholar active during the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods, known for his expertise in commercial law, particularly in negotiable instruments (手形, tegata) and banking practices (銀行実務, ginkō jitsumu). He is associated with one map, A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia (滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu), likely produced when he was a student at Keio University (慶應義塾大學) or a graduate student or junior professor at Tokyo Gakushuin (學習院). He later became a professor at Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝国大学, Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku), he played a key role in modernizing Japan's financial legal system by integrating Western legal theory with Japanese practice. One of his best-known works, 『手形及銀行實務: 英語對照』 (Tegata oyobi Ginkō Jitsumu: Eigo Taishō, Bills and Banking Practices: With English Translation), provided a bilingual reference for legal and financial professionals during Japan's period of internationalization. His work contributed significantly to the development of Japan's legal infrastructure for banking and finance, influencing the standardization of laws concerning promissory notes (約束手形, yakusoku tegata) and bills of exchange (為替手形, kawase tegata). More by this mapmaker...
Nakamura Shingo (中村進午, なかむら しんご; August 17, 1870 - October 31, 1939) was a Japanese lawyer, academic, and publisher active in Japan. Nakamura was born in Takada, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He studied law at the Tokyo Imperial University. He traveled widely, studying international law and policy in Germany, England, and France before returning to Japan to take a professor of law position at the Tokyo Gakushuin (學習院). He was a member of the nationalist anti-Russian Tomizu Group and publicly advocated for a no-tolerance policy toward Russia - a controversial position that led him to lose his Gakushuin professorship. and later at Hôsei (法政大學) University. In 1906 (Meiji 39), after the Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905), he became a professor at Tokyo Higher School of Commerce (Hitotsubashi University), where he remained, later as a Professor Emeritus, until 1938, the year before his death. Learn More...
References
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, 1145. Boston Public Library, Leventhal Center, G5690 1904 .O33. Baynton-Williams, A., The Curious Map Book, page 196. OCLC 498191044.