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Bankoku Sozu

"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
1602
Place
Rica de Oro
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,204 × 2,873 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Bankoku Sozu" (1602). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bankoku_Sozu.jpg

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