Título: Volcanoes Exhibition Poster
Artista: Bodleian Library

Image: Earthquake and Eruption of the Mountain of Asama-yama, in the

Province of Sinano

Isaac Titsingh, a Dutch diplomat, gathered news of a devastating eruption of Asama

in August 1783. At its climax ?the flames burst forth, with a terrible uproar? destroying

villages up to ten miles from the volcano.

Titsingh, I., Illustrations of Japan, consisting of private memoirs of the djogouns,

London 1822. Douce T Subt. 7 Japan