Japan

On the old maps

Maps that name Japan.

c. 1619–1629anonymous ChineseThe Selden Map of China1622Hessel GerritszChart of the South Sea1674VerbiestKunyu quantuc. 1680de WitNew description of Great Tartary, the Empire of the Great…UndatedMarco PoloMap of the Far East and adjacent Pacific

12 sources and maps name this place

1. 1072–1077a range
   Circular world map of the Turkic lands in the Diwan lughat al-Turk

   MMahmud al-KashgarifirsthandM095
2. 1492exact year
   Terrestrial globe, the so-called Behaim Globe

   MMartin BehaimcompilationM090
3. 1555exact year
   Guang yu tu

   MLuo HongxiancompilationM106
4. c. 1569–1578approximate
   Peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, giving account of many very strange things seen and heard in the…

   WFernão Mendes Pintoclaimed or disputedW242
5. 1601exact year
   Tian di tu: late-Ming woodblock atlas of the heavens, China, the provinces, Chinese Turkestan and the South…

   MZuo JunhengcompilationM116
6. 1602exact year
   Kunyu wanguo quantu

   MMatteo Ricci SJ with Li ZhizaocompilationM118
7. c. 1619–1629approximate
   The Selden Map of China

   Manonymous ChinesefirsthandM117
8. 1622exact year
   Chart of the South Sea

   MHessel GerritszcompilationM030
9. 1674exact year
   Kunyu quantu

   MFerdinand Verbiest SJcompilationM102
10. c. 1680approximate
    New description of Great Tartary, the Empire of the Great Mogul, Japan and China

    MFrederick de Wit, AmsterdamcompilationM048
11. c. 1785approximate
    Sankai yochi zenzu

    MNagakubo SekisuicompilationM103
12. Undatedno accepted date
    Map of the Far East and adjacent Pacific

    MMarco Poloclaimed or disputedM029