Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era

Bankoku enzu

Description

Scale not given. Japanese translation based on Matteo Ricci’s world map. "Muninjima" (Bonin Islands), drawn to the south of Honshū, were surveyed by the Shōgunate expeditionary party in 1675; therefore this map is after that date. Title is taken from the cover. Cited in: WSN; 3.

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