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A colorful pictorial map of the world entitled Sekai Jōsei Chizu (“Map of the World Situation”), published in Tokyo in 1940 by the publisher Ōkura Shoten (大倉書店) with the aim of representing the global geopolitical situation on the eve of the Pacific conflict, at a time when the Japanese Empire was presenting itself as a new world power. The map, highly decorative and narrative, translates geopolitical reality into an immediate figurative language: the continents are…

• Author: Ōkura Shoten (大倉書店)
• Dimension: 38 x 54 cm
• Place of publication: Tokyo
• Year: 1940