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Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu
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Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu

Shows the world, based on knowledge from numerous famous Chinese and Japanese classics and Buddhism. Depths shown pictorially. Wood block print. Map and author, Hōtan, listed in Imago Mundi's Review of early cartography, v. 10, 1954. ". prototype of Buddhist world maps." Bibliography. Acquisitions control no. 94-37

Date
1710
Mapmaker / publisher
Sōshun
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
17,400 × 14,208 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Nansenbushū bankoku shōka no zu" (1710). Sōshun. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nansenbush%C5%AB_bankoku_sh%C5%8Dka_no_zu_LOC_96685908.jpg

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