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The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination
D. Max Moerman
The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination
D. Max Moerman
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception.
368 pages, 146 colour, b&w illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 30, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9780824886783 |
Publishers | University of Hawai'i Press |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 264 × 189 × 30 mm · 1.10 kg |
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