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Maps of the Edo Period

  • Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes 12. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2006.
  • Edo Jidai ‘Kochizu’ Sōran. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 1997.
  • Fiévé, Nicolas, and Paul Waley, eds. Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Gonnami, Tsuneharu. “Images of Foreigners in Edo Period Maps and Prints.” Journal of East Asian Libraries, no. 116 (October 1, 1998): 5–18.
  • Kawamura, Hirotada. “The National Map of Japan in the Tokugawa Shogunate (1633–1725): Misunderstandings Corrected.” Imago Mundi 69, no. 2 (2017): 248–54.
  • Leca, Radu. “Maps of the World in Early Modern Japan.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2020. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.69.
  • Loh, Joseph F. “When Worlds Collide: Art, Cartography, and Japanese Nanban World Map Screens.” Columbia University, 2013.
  • Papelitzky, Elke. “A Description and Analysis of the Japanese World Map Bankoku Sōzu in Its Version of 1671 and Some Thoughts on the Sources of the Original Bankoku Sōzu.” Journal of Asian History 48 (January 1, 2014): 15–59.
  • Shapinsky, Peter D. “Polyvocal Portolans: Nautical Charts and Hybrid Maritime Cultures in Early Modern East Asia.” Early Modern Japan 14 (2006): 4–26.
  • Yamashita, Kazumasa, ed. Chizu de yomu Edo jidai = Japanese maps of the Edo period. Tokyo: Kashiwa Shobō, 1998.
  • Yonemoto, Marcia. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868). Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes 7. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2003.
  • ———. “The ‘spatial Vernacular’ in Tokugawa Maps.” Journal of Asian Studies 59, no. 3 (August 1, 2000): 647–66.