Japanese Historical Maps is a website that allows users to view a collection of approximately 850 early Japanese maps of both Japan and the world. The site is a collaborative effort between David Rumsey of Cartography Associates and the East Asian Library of the University of California, Berkeley. The maps on the website are selected from the 2,300 maps in the collection of the East Asian Library.
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