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2011
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Catalogue of pre-modern Japanese maps held in the British Library
Japan has a long history of cartography but it was only with the advent of commercial printing and publishing in the early seventeenth century that maps became everyday objects. In the course of the Edo period (1600-1868) an extraordinary quantity of maps were printed for popular sale and distribution, all...Kornicki, Peter Francis