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(JAPAN.) Terrain Maps, a set of 15 pieces (Yochi zu, ao jugo fuku). 15 color-finished pen-and-ink double-page manuscript maps, each approximately 305x400 mm. Small 4to, original stiff boards; browning on several maps. Np, suggested to be 17th century
Cover lists maps of the world (tensha), China, major cities, rivers and mountains, Korea, Korea's 8 territories, Japan, and Ryûkyû Islands. Set includes "Three hundred seventeen fiefdoms" with Mt. Penglai, land of immortality, along with other mythical sites. Marginalia includes notes on the distance to bordering seas.
