General Overviews on Japanese Maps

  • Wikipedia. “Alte Karten aus Japan,” September 24, 2019. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alte_Karten_aus_Japan&oldid=192543968.
  • Cortazzi, Hugh. Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan. New York, 1983.
  • Goree, Robert. “Maps and Their Contexts: Reflections on Cartography and Culture in Premodern East Asia: Introduction.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 6, no. 2 (2017): 325–32.
  • Kokudo Chiriin. The National Atlas of Japan. Rev. Ed. Tokyo, 1990.
  • Kornicki, Peter F. The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century. Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Abt. 5, Japan, Band 7. Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 1998.
  • Kuroda, Hideo, and Mary Elizabeth Berry, eds. Chizu to Ezu No Seiji Bunkashi. Shohan. Tokyo: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 2001.
  • Namba, Matsutaro, Nobuo Muroga, Kazutaka Unno, and Patricia Murray. Old Maps in Japan. Osaka, 1973.
  • Pegg, Richard A. Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps. Honolulu, H.I: University of Hawaii Press, 2014.
  • Unno, Kazutaka. “Cartography in Japan.” In Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies, edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward, 346–477. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994.
  • Wigen, Kären, and Carolien Stolte. “Map-Making in World History: An Interview with Kären Wigen.” Itinerario 39 (January 1, 2015): 203–14.
  • Wigen, Kären, Fumiko Sugimoto, and Cary Karacas, eds. Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps. Chicago, 2016.