Lot #: 44639

Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]

Maker / Publisher:		ANONYMOUS
Place & Date:		Korea, ca. 1760
Colored:		Uncolored.
Size:		305 x 190 mm / 12 x 7.5 inches
Condition:		On mulberry paper, large 4to, 305 x 190 mm (maps 285 x 340 mm). 13 woodblock maps in a traditional side‐stitched binding with original thick mulberry paper covers with manuscript text.

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A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 13 woodblock maps showing the World, China, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the 8 provinces. The seas are in black.
Slight wear, covers of thicker mulberry paper, with inside being used by a calligrapher stylized Chinese characters in brushwork.

The typical contents of the traditional Korean atlases during this period consist of the following: a world map bearing the title Ch’onhado, with China, Korea, Japan and the Ryukyus at the center, surrounded by a ring of islands and other landforms that become increasingly mythological with distance from the center.

The second map depicts China and Korea, maps of the Ryukyu Islands, a map of Korea, maps of the eight provinces of Korea. The style and arrangement of the provincial maps is ultimately derivative of the Sinjung tongguk yoji sungnam, as is common for both printed and manuscript atlases of the latter Choson period.

The map of China in this atlas prominently depicts the Great Wall and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. This map may have been derived from a map produced during the Chinese Ming Empire (1368-1644).

Bound in a side-stitched binding (Korean: seonjang 선장). Most scholars believe side-stitched bindings were first produced in China in the Ming dynasty (1338-1644) and used alongside other binding structures there, becoming the main binding format in China around the late 16th to early 17th century. Despite its Chinese origins, side-stitched bindings became the predominant bound format in Korea much earlier during the late Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). It became predominant in Japan at the end of the Muromachi period (1333-1600).

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Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]

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