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Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.
This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...
Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710
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Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]
Based on map by Ochikochi Doin. Oriented with north to the right. An extraordinary wood block-printed town-plan now-a-day Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. Th...
Date: Edo, ca. 1803
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Aou, Tōkei. Kokugun Zenzu [Atlas of Provinces and Counties of Japan]. (volume 1 only)
First edition. Very attractive early Japanese Atlas of detailed maps of Japanese regions compiled by six Japanese civilians in the eighth year (1837) of the Tenpō era (...
Date: [Nagoya]: Tōheidō, Tenpō 8 = 1837
Chinese Export watercolor.
Chinese watercolor with in lower margin Chinese text : Chinese watercolor - " A farmer's thief, a book, a big manuscipt, a filial piety, a martial art. " [Googl...
- $1000 / ≈ €864
Date: China, ca. 1850
A rare and impressive pictorial Qing Empire map of the western part of Taiwan.
The top of the map faces east, the bottom faces west, and the left and right are north-south. It is about 120 cm high and 225 cm long. The map shows only to the west of t...
- $180000 / ≈ €155465
Date: ca. 1850
Militairy manuscript map of the end of Yangzi River across Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas, with 3 red seals of the Ever-Victorious Army.
In the lower left corner, an inset plan of Songjiang District with Shanghai is shown with a grid, and the area is divided with red dotted border lines.The map has three r...
Date: China, ca 1862
Kaisei dosen Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.
Title in top : "Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.". Showing Japan, Korea and in an inset Hokkaido. Folding copperplate print in Japanese. Relief shown by hachures. Include...
- $350 / ≈ €302
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 10 or 1877
(Complete map of ancient and modern geography of China)
The second earliest edition of China’s first commercial map, Gujin di yu quan tu 《古今地輿全圖》(Complete map of ancient and modern geography of China) made du...
Date: Jingdu dashuntang, 1888
Japanese Stereotype Map of the World from 1932 Share Hitome de wakaru Manga sekai genjō chizu. At a glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation. 目でわかる 漫画世界現状地圖
An extraordinary satirical map of the world was seen through Japanese eyes in the early 1930s as Japanese imperial ambitions strengthened. The map was published as an edi...
Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
New China Map.
Very large and detailed map of China (1:6,000,000) printed in Shanghai, June 27th 1938 by JIN-SHIN GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE.The title and place names in Chinese and Engli...
- $900 / ≈ €777
Date: Shanghai, June 27th 1938