萩博物館蔵妙元寺旧蔵の地球儀について
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This paper describes the form and size of a terrestrial globe once owned by a curate of <special>Myogenji</special> Buddhist temple and now kept in the Hagi City Museum, together with some geographical information it provides. The globe described is 305 mm in diameter and constructed from glued <special>Gofun</special> whitewash. It has a wooden stand with two wooden supports 162 mm in height whose tops are cut to form crescent-like groove. The axis of the globe is laid horizontally on these grooves, resembling a unicycle. Hence, it can be considered an example of a unicycle-type globe. The stand also serves as the lid or the wooden case, bearing scales measuring 349 x 349 x 343 mm. The world map pasted on the face of the globe were produced by redrawing the geographical information on the world map made by Hashimoto Sokichi known as <special>Oranda-shinyaku-chikyuzenzu</special> which was printed in 1796 and distributed in and around <special>Osaka</special> in the <special>Naniwa</special> area of <special>Kansai</special>, western Japan. Several globes of the same unicycle type are preserved in several museums, including <special>Shimonoseki</special> City Art Museum and <special>Kobe</special> City Museum, in western Japan. Although the name of the globe-maker remains unknown, this globe does not appear to have been produced by an intellectual, or someone with geographical knowledge, as the lines of longitude and latitude are sometimes geminated, and meridian lines drawn at irregular intervals are evident. The maker appears to have been unaware of the significance of these lines, which indicate absolute location on the map. The globe and several newspaper cuttings dated May <special>10th</special> or <special>11th</special> 1937 are boxed in a chest. This globe appears to have been made during the period between 1796, when the map on which the geographical information were based was published, and 1937, which was when the newspaper was printed.
- 2009-03-31
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