Keywords: 1875 Meiji 8 Japanese Map of the World - Geographicus - World-meiji8-1875.jpg An exceedingly rare find This is a Japanese map of the world dated to the 8th year of the Emperor ™s Meiji ™s reign or 1897 Depicts the entire world on a hemisphere projection with smaller polar projections in the upper left and right quadrants The national boundaries and geography in general is vague as is common to Japanese maps of this period Color coded according to region with Japan itself in bright red Several harbor plans and views adorn the bottom portions of the map All text in Japanese Folds into its original boards 1875 dated Meiji 8 Size in 36 28 object history credit line accession number World-meiji8-1875 Pocket Map Independent Issue Geographicus-source PD-art Maps in Japanese 1875 maps Old maps of Earth's hemispheres |