Tsuran minzoku bunpu chizu = Ethnographical card of Turanians (Uralo-Altaians). Author, S. Kitagawa. Drawer, R. Kato. Issued by "The Japn Turanian Association. M. kir. Honved Terkepeszeti Intezet. - M. 44-943. The Japan EredetiTerkep Nyoman, Kiadja a Magyarorszagi Turan Szovetseg.

• Main Authors: Kitagawa, Shikazo, Kato, Ryushiro, Janson, V.
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Magyarorszagi Turan Szovetseg 1943
• Subjects: Ethnography; Nationality; Race; samoyed*
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Color ethnographic map of Eurasia, Printed in both Japanese and English, depicting the ancestral connections between the Hungarian and Japanese peoples, issued by the Japan Turanian Association in 1933 and later published in Budapest during World War II. The map covers all of Eurasia, with color coded reference to the territories of five divisions of ethnic groups, and their various subdivisions, that the Turanian movement claimed were ancestrally related: Finno-Urgians. Samoyeds; Turko-Tatars; Mongolians; Tunguses. Includes notes and statistical tables. "Rare ethnographic map of Eurasia, promoting the concept of "Pan-Turanism," providing a graphic depiction of the purported ancestral connections between the Hungarian and Japanese peoples, devised by the Japan Turanian Association in 1933 and later published in Budapest during World War II. "The map illustrates the then popular, but fanciful, theory that the Japanese and Hungarian peoples, as well as certain other societies, are ancestrally related. It is perhaps the most visually impressive product of the movement of Pan-Turanism, which flourished in the period between the World Wars and attempted to forge connections between European Finno-Urgic peoples (namely Hungarians and Finns) and Japan, which was then thought to be Asia's most advanced society. In addition to being an interesting ethnographic project, in Japan the Pan-Turanian movement had strong, controversial political undertones, as it was seen as providing historical and moral justification for the country's imperialistic expansion into Continental Asia, which provided support for its membership in the Axis alliance (which included Hungary and Finland). Printed in both Japanese and English, the map was created in 1933 by Kitagawa Shikazo, a leading Japanese Turanian activist. However, Shikazo's work remained in manuscript until it was printed in 1943, in Budapest, on the orders of the Hungarian Turanian Society. The map covers all of Eurasia, with color-coding to express the territories of five ...