Old Japan Map - Japan - Blaeu 1655 - This is an exquisite full-color Reproduction printed on gloss paper or art paper.
The following towns are featured: example of Blaeu's map of Japan from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Sinensis. The atlas of China was the work of one Martino Martini, an Italian Jesuit, who had lived in China but not visited Japan, but was able to compile a report of the country from information supplied to him. The map proved influential and was based on a combination of details from pre-existing charts with the addition, perhaps by Blaeu, of further detail from Dutch East India charts. Of added significance as the first map to show Korea correctly as a peninsula, as opposed to an island on earlier maps.
This Map is Situated in: Continent of Asia.
SKU: ITJA0013
Original Maps are often difficult to find and usually have fold lines, identifying stamps or markings, tears, ragged edges, and assorted other natural signs of age that detract from their beauty. All of our maps have been professionally restored to depict their original beauty, while keeping all historical data intact.
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