Figures
0.1 Kunyu wanguo quantu
0.2 Da Qing wannian yitong tianxia quan tu
2.1 Imperium Sinicum [The Empire of China]. Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI), Jap. Sin. 105-I, f. 1ʳ 74
2.2 Tartariae Imago [Tartary]. ARSI, Jap. Sin. 105-I, f. 6ʳ 75
2.3 Tabula itineris ex Moschovia in Chinam a Moschis facta [Itinerary from Moscow to China]. ARSI, Jap. Sin. 105-I, f. 98ʳ 76
2.4 Duplex iter terrestre in Chinam ex Persia et ex Mogor iuxta descriptionem P. Antonii Thomae missam anno 1690 ex Sina [Land Routes into China from Persia and from Mughal India, according to a description sent from China by Father Antoine Thomas in 1690]. ARSI, Jap. Sin. 105-I, f. 227ʳ 77
2.5 Tabula geographica Orientis, iuxta autographum P. Antonii Thomae, Belgae e Societate Iesu, missum Pekino anno 1690, in qua demonstrantur etiam itinera in Chinam ex Moschovia, Persia et Mogor [Geographical Map of the Orient according to the Manuscript sent from Beijing in 1690 by the Belgian Jesuit Father Antoine Thomas, showing also Routes to China from Muscovy, Persia, and Mughal India]. ARSI, Jap. Sin. 110 (folio without number, at the beginning of the volume) 78
4.1 Detail from Ricci’s 1602 World Map showing Gouguo and Yecha Guo, or “Dog Country and Land of the Yakṣas.” James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota 103
4.2 Detail of a Japanese hand-drawn copy of Ricci’s 1602 map. Tohoku University, Japan 109
4.3 Detail from Ricci’s 1602 World Map. James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota 110
4.4 Cheng Dachang
4.5 Hu Wei
4.6 Detail from Nagakubo Sekisui’s Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzu
4.7 Image of an inhabitant of the Land of the Night from Inagaki Shisen’s Kon’yo zenzu setsu
4.8 Hybrid world map of Cao Junyi
4.9 Yushu jingtian hedi tu
5.1 Sasayama Ricci World Map. Private collection (deposited in the Tamba Sasayama City Museum of History and Art) 139
5.2 Bankoku Sōzu
5.3 Yochi Zu
5.4 Sekisui World Map (revised edition)
5.5 Minnesota Ricci World Map
5.6 Li’s preface on the extant original edition of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.7 Area around the Iberian Peninsula in the extant original edition of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.8 Area around the Red Sea in the extant original edition of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.9 Li’s preface on the hand-drawn copy of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.10 Area around the Iberian Peninsula in the hand-drawn copy of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.11 Area around Southeast Asia in the hand-drawn copy of the 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.12 Area around Kin-jima, or “Gold Island,” in the hand-drawn copy the of 1602 Ricci World Map. Detail from
5.13 Comparison of the abrasions and the Chinese characters on the northeast of North America between the Minnesota Ricci World Map (James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota) and the Tokushima Ricci World Map (Tokushima University Library collection) 156
5.14 Comparison of the Chinese character “
5.15 Sasayama World Map, 1675. Private collection (deposited in the Tamba Sasayama City Museum of History and Art) 160
5.16 Lake Parime in South America in the Sasayama World Map, private collection (deposited in the Tamba Sasayama City Museum of History and Art) 161
5.17 Area around Southeast Asia in the Sasayama World Map, private collection (deposited in the Tamba Sasayama City Museum of History and Art) 162
5.18 World map produced by Shibukawa Shunkai, ca. 1698, private collection (deposited in the Osaka Museum of History) 163
5.19 Map of the eastern and western hemispheres published in the
5.20 World map of the Sekisui lineage from a scrapbook made by a commoner: Futokoroni-Tamaru-Morokuzu
5.21 World map of the Sekisui lineage edited for children: Bankoku Yochi Sankai Zusetsu
5.22 Kon’yo Zenzu
6.1 Lacquered terrestrial globe, Manuel Diaz the Younger and Niccolò Longobardi. The British Library: Maps G. 35. © Courtesy of the British Library Board 186
6.2 Illustration of a terrestrial globe published in the Qing ritual encyclopedia, Huangchao liqi tusi
7.1 Kunyu quantu
7.2 Kunyu quantu
7.3 Cartouche from the Kunyu quantu
7.4 Cartouche from the Kunyu quantu
8.1 Kunyu wanguo quantu
8.2 “Ch’ŏnha to chi do”
8.3 “Ch’ŏnha do”
8.4 A later copy of the Honil kangni yŏktae kukto chi do (originally produced 1402). Honkōji Tokiwa Museum of Historical Materials, Nagasaki, Japan 242
8.5 Traditional-style tianxia tu (map 2 of vol. 1), in Yŏji to, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 253
8.6 Map of the route of tributary mission (map 3 of vol. 1), in Yŏji to, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 254
8.7 Map of Seoul (map 5 of vol. 1), in Yŏji to, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 255
8.8 Map of Chosŏn, Japan, and Ryukyu (map 6 of vol. 1), in Yŏji to, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 256
8.9 Map of Kyŏnggi Province (map 1 of vol. 2), in Yŏji to, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 257
8.10 “Ch’ŏnha to” in Kwangyŏ to Atlas. Early nineteenth century, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, Korea 262
9.1 European T-O map, from a fifteenth-century printed version of Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (ca. 560–636) 268
9.2 “Map of the Nine Borders, All the Countries, Footprints, and Itineraries under the Ming Dynasty” [Daimin kyūhen bankoku jinseki rotei zenzu
9.3 “Map of the Great Qing” [Da Qing yochi zenzu
9.4 “Map of the Great Qing with Longitudes and Latitudes” [Keiten gatchi Dai Shin kōyozu
9.5 Left: “Map of Asia—Orient” [Ajia Tōyō zu
9.6 Left: “Map of the Five Indias” [Gotenjiku zu], 1749 (copy of 1364 original), 167 × 133 cm. Kobe City Museum. Right: English schema with explanatory labels from Unno Kazutaka, 1994, “Cartography in Japan,” in The History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press, 1994), 2.2: 373 278
9.7 “Map of the Myriad Countries of Jambu-dvīpa” [Nansenbushu bankoku shōka no zu
9.8 Upper: “Map of the Various Countries of Jambu-dvīpa” [Nansenbushu shokoku shūran no zu
9.9 “Map of the Myriad Countries of the World” [Bankoku sōkaizu], by Ishikawa Ryūsen
9.10 Nishikawa Joken
9.11 “Comprehensive Map of the Lands, Seas, and Countries of the World” [Chikyū bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu
9.12 Anonymous world maps in the style of Nagakubo Sekisui, n.d., mid-nineteenth century. Yokohama City University Library 286
9.13 Left: Imari ceramic map of the world, mid-nineteenth century. Kyushu Ceramic Museum. Right: “Picture Map of the Peoples of the World” [Bankoku jinbutsu zue
9.14 Utagawa Sadahide
10.1 Yu ji tu
10.2 Detail of an engraved boulder on the southern coast of Hainan Island reading nan tian yi zhu
10.3 Image of the two yuan note depicting the image of the “Pillar of the Southern Sky” 305
10.4 Detail of an engraved boulder on the southern coast of Hainan Island reading tianya
10.5 Detail from the Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo da di tu
12.1 Detail from E sheng quan tu
12.2 Detail from scroll map of Luosha, depicting siege of Russian forces by Qing army along the Heilongjiang (Amur) River in 1686. From Aihun, Luosha, Taiwan, Menggu tu
12.3 Detail from an eighteenth-century Chinese road map. Shan jing Shu dao tu
12.4 Detail from a seventeenth-century Japanese road map. Tōkaidō bunken emaki
Tables
5.1 Versions of Matteo Ricci’s 1602 World Map in Chinese, with location and defining characteristics 153