medievalpoc:

eastiseverywhere:

Unknown Japanese painter
Detail of Continental Map of Forty-Eight Foreign People (Asia and Africa): Malays
Japan (1718-1800)
Kobe City Museum
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Yes, there are 23 more pairs of Asians and Africans in this single map I found off Google images. And yes, there is a whole other map full of Europeans, North Americans and South Americans (including indigenous peoples). And yes, you can zoom in for even more detail than above.

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But no, I can’t identify most of the communities. I read Chinese, not Edo period Japanese. And the print screen doesn’t always work, since there’s often text in the way.

Help???

What an amazing map! I can’t read the text either, but I’m definitely boosting to see if anyone else is willing to take a look! Each section is carefully labeled: