Japanese map of Ming China

[Patricia Graham]

Dear Members, 

I am working on a research project focusing on a VERY large and detailed Japanese manuscript map, dated 1681, of Ming China. So far I am not finding anything like it and wonder if anyone has encountered other Edo period maps of China (either printed or painted). Or if you could point me to some Japanese language resources, preferably, of course, accessible online. 

Many thanks,

Pat Graham

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[Radu Leca]

Dear Patricia,

 

This must be related to the 大明九辺万国人跡路程全図, published in Kyoto by Umemura Yahaku 梅村弥白 at the end of the Genroku period.

It is an almost identical copy of the similar-titled map (天下instead of 大明) published in Suzhou in 1663 by Wang Junfu 王君甫.

A discussion of the original Chinese map is in Qiong Zhang, Making the New World their Own, 2015, pp. 348-55 (on Google Books).

I am attaching other references in a private message.

 

Best wishes,

Radu Leca

Historian of Art and Cartography

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[Kaitlin Forgash]

Dear Patricia,

The C.V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley has a large collection of Edo-era maps, much of which has now been digitized and put online. A quick glance shows that at least some of the maps are world atlases, and deeper digging may show more. Here is the link to the website, which has further links to access the databases:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/

Best,

Kaitlin Forgash

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[McVey, Kuniko Yamada]

Dear Doctors Graham and Leca,

FYI, Harvard-Yenching library holds  大明九邊萬國人跡路程全圖 and 大明都城図 as follows, and both of them are digitized and publicly accessible by clicking “View Online.” They are very different.

Da ming jiu bian wan guo ren ji lu cheng quan tu

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• Vernacular title: 大明九邊萬國人跡路程全圖.
• Variant title: Tu ming yi ti: Da ming jing sheng jiu bian wai guo fu zhou xian lu cheng tu; 圖名亦題: 大明京省九邊外國府州縣路程圖
• Published: 日本 : 帝畿書坊, [n.d.]; Riben : Di ji shu fang, [n.d.]
• Description: 1 map.; Scale not given.
• Language: Chinese
• Notes: 梅村彌白據淸康熙二年(1663)刋本重梓.; In case.; Meicun Mibai ju Qing Kangxi er nian (1663) kan ben chong zi.
• Subjects: China -- Maps.
• Creation Date: [n.d.]
• HOLLIS number: 990086901940203941
• Permalink: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990086901940203941/catalog

Dai Min tojōzu

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• Vernacular title: 大明都城図.
• Variant title: [Dai Minkoku jūsanshō]; [大明国十三省]
• Published: 江戶 : 須原茂兵衛蔵板, after 享保14 [1729].; Edo : Suhara Mohē zōhan, after Kyōhō 14 [1729].
• Description: Scale not given.; 1 map : col. ; 77 x 95 cm. paper size 83 x 101 cm. folded to 28 x 18 cm.
• Language: Japanese
• Notes: Title from title piece on cover.; Shows administrative divisions (provinces, counties).; Wood block print.; Oriented with east to the right.
• Subjects: China -- Maps.; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Maps.
• Author / Creator: 須原屋茂兵衞, 1731-1782; Suharaya, Mohē, 1731-1782
• Creation Date: after Kyōhō 14 [1729]
• HOLLIS number: 990133251800203941
• Permalink: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990133251800203941/catalog

 

 

On大明九邊萬國人跡路程全圖  according to the catalog note of the map in Iwase collection https://trc-adeac.trc.co.jp/WJ11F0/WJJS07U/2321315100/2321315100100010/mp01909400 this map is a Japanese reprint of Qin print and it’s a world map with China as a center. Japan is not in the map but a footnote. 清版一枚刷の和刻本。中国を中心とした世界地図。変形が著しく、殊にヨーロッパ、アフリカ、アメリカ等は変形矮小化される。日本については地形を描かず、枠内に「日本国／国因近日而名即古之倭奴地在浙江東海中週廻数千里西北至海東北限以大山国王以王為姓歴代不易文武皆世官有五畿七道附庸国九白餘其俗点面文身被髪〓｛口偏・先｝足亦重儒書漢時已通中国至唐始改今号洪武初称藩至今朝貢由寧波波来然夷譎詐故〓｛三水偏・兀の下に工｝海一代設兵衛以備之今換大清国未」との解説を記す。The map is digitized and publicly accessible, which looks a bit darker than Yenching’s but basic outline seems the same. https://trc-adeac.trc.co.jp/Html/ImageView/2321315100/2321315100100010/901-086-00-01/

 

Sincerely,

Kuniko Yamada McVey

 

 

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[Kato, Naoko]

Dear Dr. Graham and Dr. Leca,

 

I wanted to also add that the version we have of 大明九邊萬國人跡路程全圖 at UBC (a Japanese reprint of the Chinese original), appears to have additional red and yellow markings on the map. 

In terms of other Edo period maps of China, we also have a Qing era map (Map of Great Qing Dynasty with longitudes and latitudes 經天合地大清廣輿圖) , in case this may be of interest to you.

Sincerely,
Naoko Kato

 

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[Pat]

Dear Members, 

Many thanks to all who replied, your information has been most helpful!

The map I am studying is clearly important and I am happy to report it is in a publicly accessible collection, the Denver Art Museum. 

https://denverartmuseum.org/object/2018.35

The donor purchased it at auction in Japan some years ago. Curiously, it has a Meiji period box inscribed by the owner then, Iwakura Tomomi. And that provenance, of course, leads me to another question. Does anyone know if he had an art or map collection? 

Regards,

Pat Graham

[GUELBERG Niels]

Dear Pat,

I don't know if Iwakura Tomomi had such a collection, but that may be possible. He was the leader of the Iwakura mission for the new Meiji government, traveling through the USA and Europe, so it was part of his job to be acquainted with the geography of the world.

In his youth he showed his skills as an artist, one of his paintings is up to now in possession of the temple of his adopted brother in Ehime (quite a lot of the members of the impoverished court nobility in Kyoto get some help by adopting wealthy monks from the provinces), Toyo-shi, the Jippoji (see Heibonsha Nihon rekishi chimei taikei 39:204c/205a).

Best wishes

Niels

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