The first Buddhist world map printed in Japan and the prototype for all subsequent Buddhist world maps printed in Japan until the late nineteenth century. The author, Hotan (1654-1728) was a scholar-priest and founder of the Kegonji Temple in Kyoto. The earliest known example in Japan is the Gotenjiku Zu (Map of the Five Indies) by the priest Jukai dating from 1364 and now preserved in Horyuji Temple in Nara. However Hotan’s map was revolutionary in being the first printed Oriental map to introduce detailed Western cartographic information into this traditional Buddhist cosmological view and attempt to merge the two together into a comprehensible form. Europe is depicted as a series of islands in the upper left of the image whilst South America is likewise another island in the lower right of the image. Africa is omitted completely. China and Japan are clearly defined in the upper right of the map. The popularity of the map is evidenced by the fact that although the map is dated 1710, it was reissued unchange...
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Nantanbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu [Map of the Universe as a result] [Kyoto: Uhei Bundaiken, Hoei 7 (1710)]
Sotheby's. Murogo & Unno, “The Buddhist World Map in Japan” in /M Xvi (1962); H. Cortazzi, “Island of gold, p.38 pl.48; Harley & Woodward, “The History of Cartography, 2.2, pp. 428ff and Fig. 11.59; Nanba, “Old Maps of Japan, p. 179 pl.8; K. Yamashita, “Japanese Maps of the Edo Period, pp. 32-33 ill.1.
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Geografia di M. Livio Sanuto distinta in XII libri. Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1588.
The first printed atlas of Africa. Sannuto’s Geographia was intended as a compendium of world geography, but the project was curtailed by his death. Only the first part, devoted to Africa, was ever published, and that posthumously. Skelton describes the Geographia as a “methodical and precisely documented description of the geography of Africa” and notes the “critical sense” exercised in the compilation of the maps, engraved by Sanuto’s brother Giulio.
It is unfortunate that the work was left incomplete, as Skelton suggests it would have been “among the masterpieces of Renaissance geography”; the fact it was incomplete may help explain its rarity on the market today.
Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.
Sotheby's. Mendelssohn (1957) II, p. 269; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 277; Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.3 5000-7000
På mitten av 1800-talet var panoramabilder av stadsmotiv en omtyckt konstnärlig genre. Få bilder har dock blivit så omtalade Neuhaus' stockholmspanorama från 1870-talet. Och anledningen är inte så svår att förstå. Sällan har en karta utarbetats med sådan omsorg och pedantisk noggrannhet.
Heinrich Neuhaus, en tysk färglitograf, kom till Stockholm i samband med färglitografins genombrott i Sverige på 1850-talet. Han bevisade snart sin skicklighet och fick i uppdrag att utföra ett Stockholms-panorama som skulle överträffa föregångarnas i fråga om detaljrikedom och exakthet.
Som underlag hade han en 'platt' stadskarta som Topografiska Corpsen utfört 1862-67 och som i kompletterat skick utgavs 1870. Till detta hade han så fotografier av en del centrala stadsportar och ritningar av fasader. Men det räckte inte.
För att kunna lösa problemet med det höga flygperspektivet måste han också se vad som gömdes innanför fasaderna. Och då fanns det bara ett sätt - att själv besöka varenda bakgård i staden och teckna...
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Brudsporre, Gumnadenia conopsea - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
