Wholesale Minamata Tenaga Mategata Shin Shiohama, Tomode Hidariya Ishigaki Rangui Deki Ezu (水俣手永馬刀潟新塩浜, 塘手左屋石垣乱杭出来繪圖) 1667

Old map of Japan, Minamata, Shi. * Pictorial map. * Minamata salt evaporation fields map. * Manuscript: Watercolors and title by ink. * Selected buildings shown pictorially. * Map shows salt fields surrounded by Minamata River, the land surrounded by newly-formed stone walls and wall piles; shows huts, shrine "Shiogama Daimyōjin," local government office buildings; some individual names, onwer's names are written on pieces of paper and pasted on base map. * Title on verso. * Place name, Mategata inferred from "Higo kokushi"; It was the sea between Hama-mura and Marushima early in the Edo era, but reclaimed lands of Mategata area was developed land for salt fields.