Catalogue description 17 items (originally annexed to a document putting the Japanese government's case to the...

17 items (originally annexed to a document putting the Japanese government's case to the arbitration between France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan, 1902) extracted from FO 345/49. Japan: 17 maps and plans showing foreign settlements and consulates. (1) 'Plan annexed to the "Memorandum for the Foreign Office Settlements at Yokohama", Signed December 19, 1864': also showing the custom house, the road to Tokyo, and the river and waterfront. (2) 'Plan of Proposed Settlement at Hiogo [now Hyogo]; Annexed to the "Arrangements for the Establishment of Foreign Settlements at the Port of Hiogo and at Osaka", Agreed to May 16,1867': also showing Kobe, fields and the Ikuta River. (3) 'Plan annexed to the Arrangements for the Establishment of Foreign Settlements at the Port of Hiogo and at Osaka': also showing towns, the village of Kujo, rivers, trees, and Japanese buildings. (4) 'Plan of the Exhibition of the Foreign Settlement, Osaka': showing the division of the ground into lots: also showing the river [Yodo], native town and old settlement; scale: 1:900. (5) 'Plan of the Foreign Settlement at Yedo (Tokio) [now Tokyo] annexed to "Arrangements for the Settlement of Foreigners at Yedo". Agreed to November 16, 1867': also showing roads, canals, and the foreign hotel and the landing place. (6) 'Plan annexed to "Further Arrangements for the Foreign Settlement at Yedo" Agreed to May 4, 1870': showing the areas into which the foreign settlement may expand; also showing streets, canals, bridges, gates and the custom house. (7) Copy of item 6, also indicating additional areas for settlement. (8) 'Map No. 1. Map of the Principal Part of the city of Yokohama': showing administrative divisions and the former foreign settlement; also showing roads, a railway, hills, a public park and government offices; scale: 1:20,000. (9) 'Map No. 2. Plan of the Former Foreign Settlement at Yokohama': showing lot numbers and streets; also showing principal offices, the cricket ground, rivers, bridges and waterfronts; scale: 1:4,800. (10) 'Map No. 3. Plan of Yamatecho (The so-called Bluff) at Yokohama': showing numbered plots; also showing British and American Naval Hospitals, the foreign cemetery, hills, canals, bridges and temples; scale: 1:5,000. (11) 'Map No. 4. Map of the principal part of the city of Nagasaki': marking the boundaries of the former foreign settlement; also showing rivers and canals, the public garden, and the foreign cemetery; scale: 1:20,000. (12) 'Map No. 5. Plan of the Former Foreign Settlement at Nagasaki': showing streets, numbered plots, principal buildings and landing jetties; scale: 1:5,000. (13) 'Map No. 6B. Map of the South Eastern Part of the City of Nagasaki showing the Reclamation Works in Connection with the Former Foreign Settlement': scale: 1:5,000. (14) 'Map No. 6A. Map of the South Eastern Part of the City of Nagasaki: Prior to the Construction of the Former Foreign Settlement (1859)': also showing roads, warehouses and the Dutch and Chinese quarters; scale: 1:5,000. (15) 'Map No. 7. Map of the Principal Part of the City of Kobe': showing the boundary of the former foreign settlement at Hyogo and areas where foreigners were allowed to lease land; also showing the river, canals, waterfronts, administrative divisions and streets; scale: 1:20,000. (16) 'Map No. 9. Map of the Principal Part of the City of Osaka': also showing administrative divisions, streets, rivers, canals, the railway, and military and exhibition buildings; scale: 1:20,000. (17) 'Map No. 11. Map of the Principal Part of the City of Tokio': also showing administrative divisions, streets, rivers, canals, the railway, government offices and palaces, the university, and the town of Shinagawa; scale: 1:20,000. Dimensions between 45 cm x 63 cm and 18 cm x 21 cm. Items 1-7 were originally produced for earlier agreements and memoranda relating to foreign settlements, 1864-1886; [copies of] these documents (including the maps) were appended to the 1902 arbitration document. Reference tables to items 1 and 5-7 remain with the parent document.