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A Seminal Map Of Extreme Significance. This Is The First Japanese Printed Map To Depict The World Hand Towel featuring the photograph 1710 First Japanese Buddhist Map of the World Showing Europe America and Africa by Paul Fearn

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1710 First Japanese Buddhist Map of the World Showing Europe America and Africa Hand Towel

Paul Fearn

by Paul Fearn

$17.00

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Decorate your bathroom and dry yourself off with our luxuriously soft bath towels and hand towels.   Our towels are made from brushed microfiber with a 100% cotton back for extra absorption.   The top of the towel has the image printed on it, and the back is white cotton.   Available in three different sizes: hand towel, bath towel, and bath sheet.

Design Details

A seminal map of extreme significance. This is the first Japanese printed map to depict the world, including Europe and America, from a Buddhist... more

Care Instructions

Machine wash cold and tumble dry with low heat.

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Jeff Brassard

Jeff Brassard

superb!

Artist's Description

A seminal map of extreme significance. This is the first Japanese printed map to depict the world, including Europe and America, from a Buddhist cosmographical perspective. Printed by woodblock in 1710 (Hoei 7), this map was composed by the Buddhist monk Rokashi Hotan. Inspired by the 1653 publication of Si-yu-ki, a pilgrimage narrative of the Chinese monk Hsuang-Tsang's (602-604) travels to India in search of sacred Sanskrit writings, Rokashi Hotan's map attempts to update Buddhist mythological cartography, as exemplified in the 1634 manuscript map Gotenjikuzu (Map of the Five Regions of India), to correspond with the Si-yu-ki, as well as with contemporary and ancient religious texts, Chinese annals, travel narratives, and even some European maps. Rokashi Hotan lists these texts, 102 in all, at the top of the map. The consequent product of Rokashi Hotan's work is this magnificent amalgam of disparate ideas and traditions. In essence this is a traditional Buddhist world view in the Got...

About Paul Fearn

Paul Fearn

My passion is Photography and Aviation or is that Aviation and Photography ! I hope you enjoy my photographs.

 

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