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Map of Korea from a portable atlas

Artwork · Anonymous · 19th century · map

A typical Korean atlas held a Sinocentric world map, maps of China, Japan, the Ryukyu islands, Korea and its eight provinces, on oiled paper, folded and bound in a stiff cover — the maps of Korea usually after the geographical encyclopaedia of 1487. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 114–115, fig. 59. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.