The Mutual Emplacement of Europe and Asia on Cartographic Folding Screens in Japan during the Early Modern Period

UID/HIS/04666/2013The panel investigates a selection of seventeenth-century Japanese cartographic folding screens to understand how Japanese cartographers addressed cosmology and world geography by re-elaborating European and East Asian sources through interaction with European merchants and missionariespublishersversionpublishe

Transcultural exchange on a recently discovered, seventeenth-century Japanese cartographic folding screen

UID/HIS/04666/2013The paper analyses a cartographic byobu held at Kanshinji in Kawachinagano that documents articulated patterns of circulation of cosmographic knowledge from China, Korea and Europe in Japan in early modernity. Within a single world view various systems of knowledge were juxtaposed and integrated.publishersversionpublishe