Chikyū bankoku hōzu ... : 地球萬國方圖 ...

• Main Author: Nakajima, Suidō
• Format: Still Image
• Language: Japanese
• Published: [place of publication unknown : publisher not identified] 2015
• Subjects: North Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0216522; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0216522

Cover attached. The first edition is dated Kaei 5 (1852), and is reproduced in: Nihon kochizu taisei, sekaizu hen, pl. 96. Insets: (Beans 1853.2) 以南極為心圖 Nankyoku o motte shin to nasu no zu (Hemisphere with the South Pole at its centre); (Beans 1853.3) 以北極為心圖 Hokkyoku o motte shin to nasu no zu (Hemisphere with the North Pole at its centre); (Beans 1853.4) 東半球 Higashi hankyū (Eastern hemisphere); (Beans 1853.5) 西半球 Nishi hankyū (Western hemisphere). All four hemispheres, which are along the bottom left of the map, are on a stereographic projection. ...