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2. See W. Carl Rufus, "The celestial planisphere of The exclusion, in Zhu's own words, was: "the areas Bishu no Kami ("Governor of Bishu") Minamoto
King Yi Tai-jo [T'aejo]," Transactions of the Korea southeast of the overflowing seas and northwest of Mitsusuke is not otherwise identified. Tsushima
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 4 (1913), the sandy wastes, and all the bordering tribes and 3nd Iki were well-known pirate bases, of special
23-72, and "Astronomy in Korea/' ibid., 26 (1936), strange territories." interest to the Koreans.
1-52; also Rufus and Celia Chao, "A Korean Star 11. See Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in 17. The original of this map is lost; only a mid-
Map/' Isis, 35 (1944), 316-326, and, more recently, China, 3 (Cambridge, 1959), 551-556. seventeenth century copy survives. This circum-
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen, John H. Combridge, 12. On this map see the description of Walter Fuchs, stance proves the possibility of such a map being
and John S. Major, The Hall of Heavenly Records, "Pekin no Mindai sekaizu ni tsuite" (On the Ming- 3V3ilable for Pak Tonji in the early fifteenth century.
Korean astronomical instruments and clocks, 1380- period world map in Peking," Chirigakushi kenkyu See the illustration in Akioka Takejiro, Nihon
1780 (Cambridge, 1986), 154-59. 2 (1979), 3-4, with 2 plates. chizushi (Cartographic history of Japan) (Tokyo,
3. This is the title on the Ryukoku University copy of 13. Takahashi Tadashi, "Tozen seru chusei isuramu Kawade shobo, 1955), plate i.
the map and the one standard in the literature. The seikaizu," Ryukoku daigaku ronshu 374 (1963), 18. Aoyama, "Gendai no chizu ni tsuite," 143-145.
title indicated in Kwon Kun's preface, Yangch'on 86-94. Takahashi cites a number of features that are 19. See Aoyama, "Gendai no chizu ni tsuite," no; and
chip, 22/2a, is: Yoktae chewang honil kangnido, on the Tenri but not the Ryukoku map, mainly in Takahashi, 1963, 85 and 89, n. i. Takahashi exam-
"Map of historical emperors and kings and of the African part. ined an unpublished catalogue of the Hongan-ji's
integrated borders and terrains." 14. Takahashi, 1963, 89, note 9, cites four Chinese books and manuscripts compiled during the 18405
4. Ogawa Takuji, Shina rekishi chiri kenkyu (Studies transcriptions from the European part of the map, and 18505 and found an item entitled Rekidai teikyo
in Chinese historical geography) (Tokyo, Kobundo and matches them with names from al-Idrisi's map narabi sengizu (The capitals of historical emperors,
shobo, 1928), 59-62. of 1154. Without however knowing where on the together with a usurpatious map). The rekidai
5. The translation is from the text transcribed from map these names are, it is hard to evaluate them. (Korean yoktae) evokes the Korean title of the map.
the map by Ogawa Takuji, Shina rekishi chiri The 100 names from the European part still await a The "usurpatious" probably reflects Japanese um-
kenkyu, 60; see also Aoyama Sadao, "Gendai no thorough study by the appropriate specialists. brage either at Japan being part of a world map
chizu ni tsuite" (On maps of the Yuan dynasty), 15. This may have been the same map as the "map of which listed only foreign "emperors and kings," or
Toho gakuho (Tokyo), 7 (1937): 110-11. These texts this country" presented by the State Council to at Japan's incorrect orientation and position on the
differ very little from that in the Yangch'on chip, King T'aejong on 6 June 1402 (Taejong sillok, map, both of which could have been seen as detract-
22/2a-b. 3/273). This date coincides with the period in ing from the dignity of the Japanese imperial
6. Chongjong sillok, 1/173. Yi Mu's trip took place in which Yi Hoe would have been working on the institution. Such nationalist attitudes were very
1407, after the map was finished. The Choson Kangnido, which must have been completed by the strong in some Japanese scholarly circles in the
dynasty's royal annals, generally called the sillok of 8th lunar month of 1402 — solar 19 August to 16 mid-i9th century, when the Hongan-ji's catalogue
a given king, are cited from the edition Choson September — the date of Kwon's preface. Yi Hoe's was being compiled.
wangjo sillok, 48 vols., plus index volume (Seoul: death date is unknown; the latest mention of him I 20. See Akioka Takejiro, Nihon chizushi (Cartographic
National History Compilation Committee, 1955- have seen is during May-June 1409 (T'aejong sillok, history of Japan) (Tokyo, Kawade shobo, 1955),
1963). 17/353), when he was appointed to a supernumer- 80-81 (illustration).
7. Taejong sillok, 4/iob-na. ary post in the censorate. It is only many years 21. Unno Kazutaka, "Tenri toshokan shozo Dai Min
8. Aoyama Sadao, "Gendai no chizu . . . ," Toho gakuho later, in 1482, that his authorship of the P'altodo kokuzu ni tsuite" (On the 'Map of Ming' held by
8 (1938), 122-123. finds documentary confirmation, in 3 list of maps the Tenri University Library), Osaka gakugei daigaku
9. Luo Hongxian's preface to the ]iubian tu, partly which the official Yang Songji wss seeking to have kiyo 6 (1958), 60-67, with 2 plates.
quoted in Aoyama, "Gendai no chizu. . .," Toho restricted to official use (Songjong sillok, 138/iob). 22. Yi Chan, Han-guk ko chido, 41. There is another
gakuho 8 (1938), 123. 16. These events of 1401 and 1420 are reported retro- copy of this map in the Sungjon University
10. Zhu's preface to his lost Yu(di) tu, preserved in Luo spectively, in 1438; see Sejong sillok, 8o/2ia-b. For Museum (Taejon).
Hongxian's Guang yu tu, quoted in Aoyama Sadao, his 1398-1399 mission to Japan, which lasted more
"Gendai no chizu. . ., Toho gakuho 8 (1938), 105. than 17 months, see Chongjong sillok, i/133-b. The This essay has been abridged from the author's
discussion of Korean geography in J.B. Harley and
David Woodward, eds., The History of Cartogra-
phy, 2, Cartography in the Traditional Asian Societies
(Chicago and London, forthcoming).

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