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1 item, numbered (1), (originally enclosed in despatch number 54 from Sir Ernest...
Catalogue reference: MRQ 1/18
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This record is about the 1 item, numbered (1), (originally enclosed in despatch number 54 from Sir Ernest... dating from 1876 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MRQ 1/18
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1876
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item, numbered (1), (originally enclosed in despatch number 54 from Sir Ernest Satow to Lord Salisbury, foreign Office, 12 April 1897) extracted from FO 262/763 (folio 274). Japan. Map showing prefecture boundaries, towns, rivers, hills and mountains, railways and place names in Japanese. Cartouche containing a title in Japanese. Reference table. Produced by K [?]Yokota; published by Yasugoro Okura; printed by Shinyodo, 1876. 5 insets: maps of: Asia, marking the location of Japan; the Kuril (Chishima) Islands (now part of the Russian Federation); Hokkaido Island; Formosa (now Taiwan) and the Ryukyu Islands; and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands. MS additions, coloured, giving prefecture names in English.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the item numbered (2), see MFQ 1/1113
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 138 cm x 102 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:1000000
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- Open Document, Open Description
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