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originally produced maps of Japan as artworks, but the reception of readers could change the original purpose of works. In fact, Ryūsen’s maps played to popular audiences and that his map productions were pastiches of the various kinds of published geographical information (e.g., the stations of
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stressed aesthetic values rather than the topographic accuracy of his maps, particularly in his early works. The maps consist mainly of three islands—
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instead of on a sheet of paper. From this standpoint, it makes perfect sense that, as an ukiyo-e painter,
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Ryūsen-zu was also a cultural commodity illustrated political spaces. Marcia
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