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NAGAKUBO, Sekisui.. SHINSEI YOCHI ZENZU: NEW COMPLETE MAP OF THE NUMEROUS COUNTRIES ON THE GLOBE..
A SUPERB OVAL PROJECTION OF THE WORLD There are three small light spots in top margin, not affect- ing the map or text; and one faint spot in the text. A very nice reissue of his most celebrated & excellent 1788 CHIKYU BANKOKU SANKA YOSHI ZEN ZUSETSU: WORLD MAP OF THE COUNTRIES ON THE GLOBE. Hand-coloured outline for oceans, countries & the continents. The sheet is very large and contains the title and oval projection map on the right half; the left half [about 40%] contains the descriptive text, dated colo- phon and cartographer's name, and the key to symbols. Truly a most lovely & charming primitive Japanese world map. This map was influenced by Matthew Ricci's World Map. Japanese cartography lagged Europe by about a hundred years, due to the political policy of Sakoku or "closed nation." The small amount factual cartographic information trickled in through Deshima Island, a small island in Nagasaki Bay. There the Dutch were restricted to living on a tiny place, virtual prisoners and not allowed to visit the mainland without inv- itation or armed guards. Nevertheless, Rangakusha or Japan- students of Dutch learning visited Deshima, and studied und- er the Dutch, or learned from those who learned from the Dutch which inspired many Japanese scientists, doctors, innovators and even native cartographers. Being a "closed nation" there was a great thirst for Western knowledge. Maps of this sort were very popular and gave the Japanese their first true "world view." A famous cartographer and map, see Sir Hugh Cortazzi's ISLES OF GOLD, p.35, where he discusses Sekisui at length. Sekisui was the forerunner of the great- est Japanese cartographer, Ino Tadataka. This slightly dist- orted version of the world shows a large area is devoted to both the Arctic & Antarctic regions. Asia is central, with a vague North and South American continents. Listed in G. Beans LIST, SUPPLEMENT "A" as # 1844.01 on p.23. Colour il- lustrated in AKIOKA KOCHIZU KOREKUSHON MEIHIN TEN [Kobe City Museum Catalogue], p.14, #13, & p.90 for details. See also M. Namba; OLD MAPS IN JAPAN, p.163 where he cites this first edition of this map, with many other citations about Nagaku- bo. An excellent example of early & primitive Japanese world cartography. Nagakubo was also known as Genju Mito. This map was revised by Den Rinkoku. The paper is remarkably white & quite bright, by & large a most obscure example. Color scans can be sent by email, including a photo from the Kobe Museum example. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Japan 1844, Denken. Orange stiff oxidized front cover, back cover replaced with stiff text, contained in a blue cloth Chitsu case, folds down to 11.7 x 17.8 cm., opens to 92.5 x 36 cm., woodblock printed by hand, on hand-made paper. RARE

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NAKAJIMA, Jo.. SHINTEI CHIKYUU BANKOKU HOOZU: NEW MAP OF THE WORLD..
A LARGE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTED WORLD MAP This grand wall map is beautifully done, with Africa at the far left, the Americas to the right, Asia in the central area. Each country differently colored, profusion of place names in Kanji or Katakana. Equatorial line, longitude and latitude given, no Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn cited. The four inset globes show different hemispheres. This map was issued concurrent with the arrival of Commodore Perry, and reflected the world at that time. Listed in G. Beans LIST, p.40, 1852.2. Also cited & illustrated in T. Oda: THE WORLD IN JAPANESE MAPS UNTIL THE MID-19TH CENTURY, pp. 214-215 with full page color example. A large color wall map, hand- some and ready for framing and display. Japanese cartogaphy lagged far behind Western cartographer's renditions of world maps. Receiving their Western cartographic education via the Dutch in Deshima Island in Nagasaki harbour, Japanese world view was severely limited, their perspective was based on what the Dutch brought in terms of atlases, globes and maps. Most Japanese world maps lagged some one hundred or more years, this example is considered an "early world map" in Japanese terms. Well executed, nicely drawn and colored. Always RARE. Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Edo 1852, Toryoh. Yellow stiff covers, symbol key, inset of four color globes, woodblock printed by hand on hand made paper, opens to ca. 1 meter 31.5 x 80 cm., folds down to ca. 17 x 27 cm., some folds mended, slight soil, toned. R A R E

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HOTAN, Priest.. NANSEN BUSHUU BANKOKU SHOHKA NO ZU: BUDDHIST MAP OF THE UNIVERSE According to Zu.
An excellent early example of a woodblock printed map, with Chinese text. This is the first Japanese world map drawn ac- cording to Buddhist cosmology & the prototype for all later Buddhist world maps done in Japan until the end of the 19th century. The author/artist was the famous Kyoto priest and scholar reconciled new information from the West with Chin- ese sources. It gave the hitherto isolated Japanese "a way to see a wider view of the world, but one that they could easily understand...his map was widely acclaimed for the numerous place names he furnished for Indian & Asian areas.. very rare in Western maps..." M. Nanba [citation below]. The map is centered on Jambudvipa the mythological heart of Buddhist cosmography in India. This very vital spot is noted by a horned animal who's breath is a long spiral of flame emanating from the most sacred & holy Buddhist place on the earth. Europe appears as a string of islands. A land bridge connects China with an unnamed continent to its East, which "must undoubtedly be a reflection of America" in the opini- on of the celebrated Japanese Cartographic scholars T. Oda in THE WORLD IN JAPANESE MAPS UNTIL THE MID-19TH CENTURY, plate 6., p.20-21. The Northern most Japanese island of Ezo where the Ainu live is located just slightly South of the mystery [American] continent. Africa is a diminutive land mass. To the far West is a small island empire identified as "Country of Western Women" along with other mountainous isl- and kingdoms, likely England, Scotland and Ireland. The map text includes a list of Buddhist Sutras, Chinese histories, literary classics &c. Drawn by the scholar priest Zuda Rokashi [known as Priest Hotan], 1654-1728. "Illustrates the fusion of Buddhist dogma and Western geographical knowledge. The basic outlines of the map are copied from a Buddhist prototype, the Gotenjiku Zu [MAP OF THE FIVE INDIES], whose characteristic features was the shield-shaped continent of Jambu-dvipa. Jambu-dvipa was the habitable world according to the Buddhist cosmographical view**. In this example the sacred lake of Anavatapta can be seen in the centre, from which flow four rivers in a whirlpool pattern. Jambu-dvipa can be equated topographicaly with the Indian peninsula, Lake Anavatapta symbolises Lake Manasarovar in the Himalayas and the four rivers represent the Ganges, Oxus, Indus and Tarim. In order to preserve the traditional Buddhist out- lines and at the same time incorporate the new knowledge of Western geography, the European and American countries are shown as small islands on the periphery of Jambu-dvipa. Although an amalgam of discordant ideas, the map became one of of the most popular and widely circulated works of the day and seved as a model for all later Buddhist maps." Cited from Olande Jones et al: CHINESE & JAPANESE MAPS, British Library [full citation below]. Being a famous work there are many scholarly studies and cartographic references on this marvelous map. See S. Ayusawa: "WORLD MAPS MADE IN JAPAN'S AGE OF NATIONAL ISOLATION" Imago Mundi 10, [1953], pp.123-8.** On page 124 he cites the map and says " World maps representing Buddhist cosmology. The earliest map of this type is the NANSENBUSHU BANKOKU SHOKA NO ZU" and is also illustrated as his figure 2, which is our exact map. See also: G. Beans: LIST item 1710.1, and the illustration facing p.21 matches our exact item. H. Cortazzi: ISLES OF GOLD p.38 and plate 48 again matches ours, but that one found in Kobe City Museum is with [later] hand-coloring and is sadly a poor and stained copy with some loss. Muroga and Unno's essay in IMAGO MUNDI vol. 16, 1962. M. Namba et al.: OLD MAPS IN JAPAN p.13, plate 8. Yolande Jones et al: CHINE- ESE AND JAPANESE MAPS in a British Library Exhibition 1974, example J3. T. Oda et al.: THE WORLD IN JAPANESE MAPS UNTIL THE MID-19TH CENTURY, plate 6, page pp. 20-21. This map also appeared in February 1988 catalogue of THE COMPASS FOR MAP COLLECTORS, item 1 [a map dealer's catalogue]. Also listed and illustrated twice in J. Harley: CARTOGRAPHY IN THE TRAD- ITIONAL EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN SOCIEETIES, pp.428-9, fig. 11.59 & color plate #29. By and large, very good condition, a few old tiny worm holes, most neatly mended, two very sm- all and faint stains, otherwise a very clean solid copy. Entirely hand-printed by woodblocks on very white hand-made Kozo fiber Washi paper. In the original covers, scuffed and edges worn, but the subtle original blind-stamped tradi- tional Buddhist swastika design still there. This is an imp- ortant Buddhist relic, and classic land-mark of early Buddh- ist cartography. Maps of this subject and grand size are seldom found on the open market. Early Buddhist maps of this grandeur and caliber are always very RARE ! Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

[Kyoto 1710, Nagata Chohbei]. Blue original paper covers, title slip, covers rubbed: some blue loss, woodblock printed 1 m. 44.5 x 1 m. 20 cm. accordion folded, very good impres- sion, excellent registry, white hand-made paper,clean solid.

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HOLTOM, Daniel C.. MODERN JAPAN AND SHINTO NATIONALISM: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese R.
A CLASSIC AND RELIABLE STUDY A serious scholarly resource. Addressing war-time ultra nationalism, religious foundations of the Japanese state, Shinto and Nationalism, Universalism, Japanese Christianity, Buddhism, and overseas expansion of Shinto. * The revised 1947 edition brings this study up to its latest date and information. It addresses the end of State Shinto as utilized as a mobilizing force World War II, and its dis-establishment and being reduced to the of a privatel supported sect at the end of the war, "Although of special legal privileges adn endowments, the national faith of Japan still continued to exist, with latent possibilities for good or evil to the world..." quoted from the foreword to the Revised Edition. The value of this edition is that it has 2 additional chapters, but still has the original first six chapters. The two additional chapters deals with the altered status of national cultus in the new regime, the other with its ossible value as a cultural resource either to Japan or the world. * Truly a very fascinating work. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

Chicago 1947, University Chicago. Green cloth, 226p., index, appendix, very good. Best and Revised Edition

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