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

Abstract

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