File:Bankoku Sozu.jpg

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Japanese world map of the late 17th century after the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

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English: "Map of the Myriad Nations" (萬國総圖, Bankoku Sozu)


A Japanese map of the world designed to hang vertically with east at the top, paired with a collection of ethnographic prints of the peoples of the world as understood to the Japanese. Chiefly after Matteo Ricci's 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, which was quickly adapted and reprinted in Japan with the addition of the phantom islands of Kinshima (金嶋, "Island of Gold") and Ginshima (銀嶋, "Island of Silver").
Date late 17th century
Source University of British Columbia Library (G3200 1645z .S5), via "Competing Views of the World in Early Modern Japan".
Author AnonymousUnknown author

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current13:29, 21 January 2023Thumbnail for version as of 13:29, 21 January 20231,204 × 2,873 (2.18 MB)LlywelynII (talk | contribs)Cropped using CropTool to remove UBC-specific and needless gray background.
13:26, 21 January 2023Thumbnail for version as of 13:26, 21 January 20231,295 × 3,000 (1.81 MB)LlywelynII (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by Anonymous from University of British Columbia Library ([https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/tokugawa/items/1.0213137 G3200 1645z .S5]), via [https://meijiat150dtr.arts.ubc.ca/essays/leca/ "Competing Views of the World in Early Modern Japan"]. with UploadWizard

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