Plate from “Ansei kenbunshi”
- Title
- Plate from “Ansei kenbunshi”
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Rare Book Photographs
- Identifier
- RB-AK1856-1
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Damage following the great earthquake of 1855 near Tokyo (the “Ansei earthquake”). Accounts of the disaster were suppressed by the government, making them today extremely rare. This plate is from “Ansei kenbunshi” (Observations of the Ansei Era), printed in Tokyo, 1856. George W. Housner book collection.