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(★)(´Japan : A Cartographic Vision´is a celebration, in words and pictures, of the spectacular and colorful maps of Japan produced by Europeans. It explores the changing shape of Japan as conceived by Western explorers and cartographers, from the crude and fanciful depictions of the early sixteenth century to the first accurate maps published in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by a team of international experts give the historical background to three and a half centuries of European contact with Japan and the Japanese. The period begins with the early encounters by Portuguese missionaries and merchants, followed by the visits of Dutch and English traders in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and ends with Japan´s self-imposed 200-year isolation, when the only Western contact with Japan was via the Dutch trading post on the tiny man-made island of Dejima. The eleven essays are generously illustrated with portraits, drawings, contemporary views, and maps. They include an overview of the period under discussion ; a detailed and fascinating account of the annual journey of the Dutch, by sea and land, from Dejima to the Imperial court in Tokyo ; essays on Engelbert Kaempfer [1651-1716] and Philipp Franz von Siebold [1796-1866], the two phisicians to the Dutch East India Company who did so much for the cartography of Japan ; and accounts of the explorations of the islands to the south and to the north of Japan. The plates are followed by a catalogue with detailed notes to the plates. An important feature of the book is the´List of Printed Maps of Japan before 1900´, which will be of value to the map historian and collector. Consisting of 128 items, it incorporates the results of recent research and updates Dr.Tony Campbell´s pioneering ´Japan : European Printed Maps to 1800´, published in 1967.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●PREFACE ●ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS OF THE OAG : A SOCIETY MAKES SCHOLARLY HISTORY (Eberhard Friese)／ ●EUROPEAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS (Roderick M. Barron)／ ●FROM MARCO POLO TO SIEBOLD : AN OVERVIEW (Ulrich Pauly)／ ●TRAVELS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY IN THE JAPANESE ARCHIPELAGO (Wolfgang Michel)／ ●A TYPOLOGY OF MAPS OF JAPAN PRINTED IN EUROPE (1595-1800)(Lutz Walter)／ ●JAPANESE PLACE-NAMES ON OLD WESTERN MAPS (Wolfgang Michel)／ ●THE MAP OF JAPAN ENGRAVED BY CHRISTOPHORUS BLANCUS, 1617 (Jason C. Hubbard)／ ●ENGELBERG KAEMPFER AND THE EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHY OF JAPAN (Lutz Walter)／ ●PHILIPP FRANZ VON SIEBOLD (Lutz Walter)／ ●EUROPEAN MAPS OF THE RYUUKYUUS FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY (Josef Kreiner)／ ●EZO AND ITS SURROUNDINGS THROUGH THE EYES OF EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS (Adriana Boscaro and Lutz Walter)／ ●Plates ●Catalogue (Lutz Walter) ●List of Owners of Illustrated Works ●Bibliography ●List of Printed Maps of Japan before 1800 (Jason C. Hubbard and Lutz Walter) ●The Authors ●Index of Persons) |
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