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The Inland Sea of Japan: Island and Town of Osima, and coast of Sikok, in the Harima Nada, 1868. Creator: Unknown.

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The Inland Sea of Japan: Island and Town of Osima, and coast of Sikok, in the Harima Nada, 1868. Engraving of a sketch Mr. G. R. Lawrenson, Assistant Surgeon, R.N. of H.M. ship Leopard. 'The Tsuwa-Nada, or Inland Sea, lying between the three large islands, Niphon, Sikok [Shikoku], and Kiu-Siu [Kyushu], which make up Japan, is a piece of water nearly 240 miles long from east to west, and varying in width from fifteen to sixty. It is everywhere navigable, and affords good anchorage. The internal trade of Japan is chiefly carried on by thousands of small vessels, which ply to and fro upon this sea between the populous and busy cities on its shores. Of those cities, the most important is Osaca [Osaka]...The port of Hiogo, which forms the approach to Osaca by sea, and is fifteen miles from that city, has just been opened, by order of the Tycoon, to all British and other European vessels, as well as to those of the United States'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A35_160

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Droits gérés

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11,9Mo (762,7Ko) / 33,3cm x 8,9cm / 3934 x 1056 (300dpi)

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transport transportation sea boat boats arts mountain mountains art trade port ship ships island British geography Japan location century Britain newspapers press print B&W metaphor engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Inland Sea nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature gunboat diplomacy Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape panorama Unknown 19th-century Augustus Leopold Kuper Kuper Augustus Leopold Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper The Illustrated London News