Japanese Historical World Maps

18th and 19th century Japanese world maps.


Bankoku sokaizu / Ishikawa-shi Toshiyuki. Hoei 5 [1708]


Oranda shinyaku chikyu zenzu / Hashimoto Naomasa Hakubin. Kansei 8 [1796]


Dai Nihon yochi benran / Giko Yamazaki. Tenpo 5 [1834]


[Oranda Chikyu zenzu : kan] / Tajima Ryukei. [between 1840 and 1868]


Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzu / Sekisui Cho Harutaka [c. 1850]


Shochu bankoku zu / Kudo Tohe, Kaei 6 [1853]


Shintei - chikyu bankoku hozu. Unknown cartographer. Kaei 6 [1853]


Bankoku chikyu zu: zen / Mineta Fuko cho; Hashimoto Gyokuran mo; Murakami Goyu sho [c. 1853]


Bankoku chikyu bunzu : zen / Hashimoto Gyokuran. [between 1856 and 1868]


Sekai zu. Unknown cartographer. [c. 1860]


Shinkoku shochu kokai sekai zenzu / shukuzu Garyuken. Meiji 6 [1873]


Ansha sekai chizu : Higashihankyu no bu Nishihankyu no bu kan / koku Fukutomi Seisui : Fukutomi Seiri. Meiji 7 [1874]


Shinsen bankoku zenzu : zen / Sakai Sutehiko. Meiji 18 [1885]


Kaisei shinpan bankoku meisai zenzu : zen / Maeda Torakichi. Meiji 19 [1886]


Bankoku zenzu : zen / Yoshimura Sentaro. Meiji 21 [1888]

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these maps are from Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library of University of California, Berkeley [link]
more at University of Texas, Austin's Historic Maps of Asia [link]
also see Japanese Imperial Army Maps Online (in Japanese) [link]
and Tohoku University Library's Kano collection (in Japanese) [link]

Maps of the 'New World'

TabulaTerre Nove (The Admiral's Map) - by Martin Waldseemuller. published in Strasbourg, 1513. [link]

Americae Pars Magis Cognita Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruvanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae - by Theodore De Bry. published in Frankfurt, 1592. [link]

Maris Pacifici quod vulgo Mar del Zud - by Abraham Ortelius. published in Antwerp, 1595. [link]

Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio - by Abraham Ortelius. published in Antwerp, 1595. [link]

Descripcion De Las Yndias Ocidentales - by Antonio Herrera y Tordesillas. published in Madrid, 1601. [link]

America septentrionalis - by Hendrik Hondius. 1631. [link]

La Division De L'Ocean Du Nouveau Monde - by Philip Briet. published in Paris, 1648. [link]

Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en Ses Principales Parties - by Hubert Jaillot, Renier Ottens, and Josua Ottens. published in Amsterdam, 1694 [link]

by Anon, c. 1700. [link]

Americam utramque - by G. van Keulen. published in Amsterdam, c. 1710. [link]

L'Amerique Divisee En Tous Ses Pays Et Etats dressée sur de nouveaux memoires et sur les derniers - by Jean Janvier and Pierre Longchamps. published in Paris, 1754. [link]

America settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali stati - by Antonio Zatta e figli. 1785. [link]

Charte Von America... - by Franz Ludwig Gussefeld, Homann Heirs, and Christoph Fembo. published in Nuremberg, 1813. [link]

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links (where these maps were found)

-Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps - amazing collection of maps for sale [link]

-The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 @ the Library of Congress [link]

-Charting North America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others @ NY Public Library [link]

-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Historic Map collection [link]

-more map links @ Digital Librarian [link]