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Cartographic Japan (Hardcover)
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Cartographic Japan (Hardcover)
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Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and
libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical
atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map
their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old
castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are
featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet
exquisite scrolls depicting sea and land routes. Today, Japanese
people are zealous producers and consumers of cartography, and maps
are an integral part of daily life. But this was not always the
case: a thousand years ago, maps were solely a privilege of the
ruling elite in Japan. Only in the past four hundred years has
Japanese cartography truly taken off, and between the dawn of
Japan's cartographic explosion and today, the nation's society and
landscape have undergone major transformations. At every point,
maps have documented those monumental changes. Cartographic Japan
offers a rich introduction to the resulting treasure trove, with
close analysis of one hundred maps from the late 1500s to the
present day, each one treated as a distinctive window onto Japan's
tumultuous history. Sixty distinguished contributors-hailing from
Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia-uncover the meanings
behind a key selection of these maps, situating them in historical
context and explaining how they were made, read, and used at the
time. With more than one hundred gorgeous full-color illustrations,
Cartographic Japan offers an enlightening tour of Japan's
magnificent cartographic archive.
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