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Iaponia
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1606
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Amsterdam
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Scale not determined. 1 map : hand colored ; 33 x 43 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm. Relief shown pictorially. Text on back of map titled: Iaponia, ov Iapan Isle. An early Dutch map of the region, first published in 1606 as one of the 37 new maps engraved for Jodocus Hondius' expanded Dutch edition of the Mercator Atlas. The map is based upon Ortelius-Teixeira map of 1595 and includes Korea as an island and the three principal islands of Japan and part of China. Hondius notes that it was not yet certain whether Korea was an island or part of the mainland. The map is embellished with sea monsters, a Japanese junk and a Dutch galleon. This map is considered a milestone in the cartography of Japan. It remained the standard map of the region until Martini's map of 1655.
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Japan, Early works to 1800, Maps
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Japan
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Asia
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1606
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