I love those little paintings they've got in the margins, I guess showing various stuff that goes on in California
This is similar to early American colonial maps, in that those were oriented land-up (west-up) because they mentally associated land being "ahead" of them while approaching from the seas. This east-up map was most likely made by people who traversed the Pacific.
Note the seasonal Lake in what is now the East- Bay - Sacramento exurbs.
https://allthingscomedy.com/podcast/the-dollop/523---the-great-flood
This is really cool, where did you get this from? Are there others like it?
I downloaded it from somewhere years ago, don't remember where. I'm guessing there's a ton of maps like this, but I have no idea what would be a good place to find them, don't know if someone's compiled them in one place
Wow, I forgot that Japanese used to sometimes be written right-to-left horizontally. That was really confusing for a second.
No, it wasn't even common back then. It's written left-to-right, just like most languages. Also vertical is basically just as common, just used for different stuff. But when you write vertical it's top-to-bottom, right-to-left.
The quality makes it so hard to read, but it mentions the Kern river and (I think) Fresno, so no probably not. You can try to find whatever that building is from that though.
