Japanese Studies: Maps
Guidance on finding e-resources for doing research on Japanese history, literature and society
Historical map collections
- David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University LibrariesThe David Rumsey Map Collection was started in the mid 1980s and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th to 21st century maps of North and South America, the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials.
- Gaihozu Japanese Imperial MapsStanford University Libraries holds a large collection of Japanese military and imperial maps, referred to as gaihozu, or "maps of outer lands." These maps were produced starting in the early Meiji (1868-1912) era and the end of World War II by the Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the former Japanese Army.
- Maps of the Tokugawa EraUBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections holds one of the world's largest collections of maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1868.
- Japanese Historical MapsThe Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are over 1,900 images of maps and books from this Collection.
- Tadataka Ino Map of the Coast of Japan (1873)The National Diet Library provides digital access to this reprint of the map of the entire coast of Japan created by Tadataka Ino in ten stages during the seventeen years from 1800 to 1816.
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