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Description

Playful vintage pictorial map of a "view of the world" from Tokyo, based on Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker magazine cover "View of the World from 9th Avenue", which appeared in March 1976, and lampooned New Yorkers' alleged navel-gazing attitude.

The view looks down a corridor of tall buildings in Tokyo identifed as the Ginza 4-Chrome Intersection, with Tokyo Landmarks beyond, and, ultimately, the Pacific, Hawaii and America, etc.

The present view is one of a large series of images that riffed on the Steinberg concept while substituting other American and worldwide cities. Steinberg's original work has been the subject of almost-countless parodies, including one, by Columbia Pictures, which resulted in a copyright infringement lawsuit.