Street Map of Harbin, Scale 1:16,000: Hirooka Mitsuji, 1941

Description & Historical Context

Street Map of Harbin — Scale 1:16,000, 1941

A detailed street map of Harbin compiled by Hirooka Mitsuji and published in 1941, drawn to a scale of one to sixteen thousand and printed with street names throughout. The sheet sets out the layout of the city at the height of the Manchukuo era — its avenues, districts, and thoroughfares rendered in the close detail of a working city plan.

The map carries, as inset panels, a regional map of the Manchukuo territory and a Japan-Manchuria communication and transport map, situating Harbin within the wider geography of the Northeast and its connections. It was issued in its own paper folder, titled the Complete Map of Harbin.

As a primary cartographic source, a named street map of Harbin at this scale offers a precise reading of the city's form and toponymy at a fixed moment, of clear value to historians of Harbin, of urban cartography, and of the Northeast. Folding city maps of this kind, issued for practical use, survive only sparingly.

A genuine cartographic artefact of the period, well suited to a serious collection of historical maps of China and East Asian historical materials.

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