New Vintage Maps Of Japan


The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library has worked amongst the David Rumsey Map collection to digitize some 2,300 early on Japanese maps. The Japanese Historical Maps collection allows yous to explore all of these digitized historical maps from Nippon every bit zoomable images.

If yous desire yous tin explore some of these vintage maps inwards to a greater extent than exceptional on Google Maps. The Japan Historical GIS page has 8 maps from the collection, dating dorsum to 1694, which yous thought on top of Google Maps.

The University of British Columbia has a huge collection of maps as well as guidebooks from the Japanese Tokugawa menses (1600-1867). Their Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era includes digitized versions of the maps which tin hold upwards explored online.

The National Archives of Nippon likewise ain a large give away of rare vintage maps of Japan. In exceptional they conduct maintain digitized the Genroku Kuni Ezu (national state maps). Around the plough of the Eighteenth Century the Tokugawa Shogunate ordered maps to hold upwards made of the whole of the Japan. You tin explore these maps on the National Archives Classic Maps website.


Gunma GIS Geek has used the Leaflet mapping platform to exercise interactive maps from a couplet of famous Japanese pilgrimage mandalas. Pilgrimage mandalas are paintings which render a panoramic thought of temple as well as shrine sites.

The outset map on Temple Pilgrimage Mandala is of the Nachi Pilgrimage Mandala. This 16th–17th century hanging scroll depicts the Nachi Shrine on the Kii Peninsula inwards Japan. The epitome presents the journeying of 2 pilgrims (the couplet clothed inwards white) every bit they acquire into the scene (bottom right) as well as conduct maintain a circuitous road through the temple complex to the Nachi shrine.


You tin larn to a greater extent than close some of the over fifty buildings depicted inwards the epitome at the Embodying Compassion website. Embodying Compassion includes an interactive version of the Nachi Pilgrimage Mandala. This interactive version of the mandala features a give away of markers which allow yous to larn to a greater extent than close the buildings, temples as well as statues depicted inwards the mandala.


If yous desire to explore vintage maps of Tokyo as well as thus a skilful house to start is amongst the Past as well as Present Map, which uses some beautiful vintage maps to illustrate how Tokyo has developed since the Nineteenth Century.

The application lets yous explore 10 historical maps ranging inwards appointment from 1896 to 2005. The dual map command places the historical map side-by-side amongst a Google Map. Pan as well as zoom the historical map as well as the Google Map volition likewise motion to ensure that both maps are e'er showing the same view.
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