Maps of Japan's North
- Boyle, Edward: Cartographic Exchange and Territorial Creation: Rewriting Northern Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in: Altić, Mirela (Hg.): Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge, 2018.
- Howell, David L.: Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan, Berkeley, Calif 2005.
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa: The telescope and the tinderbox: rediscovering La Pérouse in the North Pacific, in: East Asian History, 01.12.2014, bas, S. 33–52.
- Rüegg, Jonas: Mapping the forgotten colony: the Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa pivot to the Pacific, in: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 6 (2), 01.11.2017, bas, S. 440–490.
- Toby, Ronald P.: Engaging the Other: „Japan“ and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850, Leiden, Niederlande 2019. Online: <https://brill.com/view/title/34133>.
- Walker, Brett L.: Mamiya Rinzo and the Japanese exploration of Sakhalin Island: cartography and empire, in: Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (5), 01.02.2008, bas.
- Walker, Brett L.: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800, Berkeley, Calif 2001.