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Subject:        Novel (?) map of East Asia (2010)
Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:49:24 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
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By ‘novel’ I mean also ‘new’.

Catching up recently by browsing through back issues of /Chizu/ = /Map :
Journal of the Japan Cartographers Association/ (Tokyo : c/o Japan Map
Center), there fell out a folded map (loose) in issue 2010, *48*(2) with
its accompanying article (in Japanese, but ‘Contents’ title in Japanese
& English) ‘Upside-down map of Japan – East Asia Exchange map’, by SAITO
Tadamitsu and SHINTA Hajime on pp. 51-52.

This bilingual, layer- and bathymetric- relief, coloured, map (printed
area 72 x 101.5 cm) – ‘Higashi Ajia kōryū chizu’ – is at scale 1:6 000
000. It is centred on Sadoga-shima’s capital, Sawata, at N38° 1’
55”/E138° 22’ 6” (or N37° 59’/E138° 19’ in /‘The Times’ comprehensive
atlas of the world/, 13^th edn, 2011).  That is (with North to top),
southwest of port of Ryōtsu at, again following /‘The Times’
comprehensive atlas of the world/’s 13^th edn, N38° 04’/E138° 25’. An
inset at 1:1 500 000 shows Sawata and Ryōtsu on islandof Sadogawith much
of ‘mainland’ Niigata& FukushimaPrefectures.

Extent (with South to top of map): [just beyond the 2000km circle] –
Davao(in The Philippines) – Kunming/[southern] Mongolia– [southern
KamchatkaPeninsulamarking (but not naming) ‘Vulkan Ichinskaya Sopka’ and
(perhaps) ‘Sopka Klyuchevskaya’)].

Only for the cartographically curious; or is it a ‘cartographic curiosity’?

Francis Herbert