One more statue in Tomioka Hachimangu, this time of a man who lived in the neighborhood in the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century and who had a personal relationship with the shrine. The reason he is worth having a statue is because he was Japan's first modern cartographer --a project that lasted from 1800 until his death, in 1818. His name was Ito Tadataka (伊能忠敬, 1745-1818) and he was one of the true heroes of the Edo Period.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore 2" set on Flickr).
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