Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Imperium Japonicum per regiones digestum sex et sexaginta atque ex ipsorum Japonensium mappis descriptum

Barcode: 
4687820500428
Title: 
Imperium Japonicum per regiones digestum sex et sexaginta atque ex ipsorum Japonensium mappis descriptum
Original Title: 
Imperivm Japonicvm per regiones digestvm sex et sexaginta atqve ex ipsorvm Japonensivm mappis descriptvm
Other Title: 
Conspectus urbis Nangasacki, et Insulae ante illam sitae, in qua sedes est Batavorum.
Contributor: 
Reelant, Adriaan, 1676-1718, cartographer
Contributor: 
Ottens, Reinier, 1698-1750, printer
Contributor: 
Ottens, Josua, 1704-1765, printer
Contributor: 
Goeree, Jan, 1670-1731, illustrator
Contributor: 
Ruyter, Baltasar, fl. 1700-1730, engraver
Contributor: 
Bignon, Jean-Paul, 1662-1743, dedicatee
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Dutch
Language: 
Japanese
Language: 
Latin
Create Year: 
[ca. 1740]
Format: 
JPEG 15404 × 13250, 73.4MB
Scale: 
[ca. 1:2,250,000] (E 124°05'00"-E 148°38'00"/N 45°42'00"-N 30°37'00").
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
44 x 60 cm, on sheet 60 x 90 cm
Note: 
This map was the first map to use Sino-Japanese characters on a European printed map. The sources of this map were mainly Japanese maps, most notably a map from the library or Benjamin Dutry (fl. 1742-1752), a former director of the Dutch East India Company. Although for the Nagasaki inset the sources are still mainly from cumulative European knowledge. Honshu the main Japanese island -here named simply Nipon, Japan- is in a distorted view because the geographical shape was made to fit the format of the map and so represents a step backwards in the depiction of this particular island in European cartography. However, Kyushu -spelled Kioesioe on the map- is very accurate and its depiction is not surpassed in European maps until the 19th century. Another improvement is the Sino-Japanese characters and the removal of many fictitious places.
Note: 
Inset 1: Conspectus urbis Nangasacki, et Insulae ante illam sitae, in qua sedes est Batavorum. - Scale indeterminable. - 14 x 22 cm.
Note: 
Original is a copperplate printed map colored by hand, 44 x 59 cm.
Note: 
On the right bottom corner of the dedicatee cartouche: "J. Goeree in.". And on the right bottom corne of the map: "B. Ruyter sculp."
Note: 
On the bottom center of the map there is a dedication to Jean-Paul Bignon inside a cartouche with a miter and the coat of arms of the dedicatee on top sided by two angels. Examples of Japanese ceramics that were a popular import to the Netherlands are displayed at the base of the cartouche. On the left of the cartouche there is a representation of natives, Samurai merchants and farmers with a Pagoda on the back and on the right side are represented fisherman and a Japanese junk. On the inset of Nagasaki can be seen 20 medallions with the coats of arms of Japanese noble families with a bigger one on the right upper side of the Japanese Empire with an unidentified portrait. There is a 4-point compass rose on the map with a fleur de lis indicating north.
Note: 
Both scale lines for the main map and the inset on the left bottom corner of their respective map. In German miles in black and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially. And bathymetric soundings on the inset.
Note: 
Land masses and islands outlined and colored in different colors.
Note: 
The four borders of the map with latitude and longitude lines in black and white interchangeably.
Note: 
Map outlined in double fillet colored yellow.
Reference: 
Hubbard, J.C. Japoniae Insulae: the mapping of Japan, map 67, p. 282-286
Reference: 
Cortazzi, H. Isles of Gold:antique maps of Japan, map 41-43
Reference: 
Campbell, T. Japan: European printed maps to 1800, map 77, p. 49
Geographic Area: 
Nagasaki-ken (Japan)
Geographic Area: 
Japan
Provenance: 
Harvard College Library
Provenance: 
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990125796790203941/catalog
Provenance Call No.: 
G7961.F7 1740 .R4
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https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000439069705076