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Minimum Mapping to Master
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Minimum Mapping to Master
Etch the following aspects of Japan and the surrounding area well enough into your memory to be able to reproduce them for the Map Quiz on Monday, 9/4.Use the maps on the below list and the one linked at the top of the textbook as study guides. You will be given a blank map of Japan and the surrounding area to fill in:
- The four main Japanese islands of:
- Honshû, Shikoku, Kyûshû, Hokkaidô
- The smaller Japanese islands of:
- Tsushima, Tanegashima
- The Ryûkyû Islands, noting the island of Okinawa
- The han (domains) of:
- Satsuma, Chôshu, Tosa
- The plains of:
- Kantô and Kinai (Kansai, Yamato)
- The cities of:
- Nara, Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, Kamakura, Nagasaki
- The shrines of:
- Ise and Izumo
- The bodies of water of:
- The Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan/East Sea
- The surrounding territories of:
- The Kuril Islands, Taiwan, China coast, Korea
- The Tôkaidô
- Mt. Fuji
(Note: Except for the online map of the Tôkaidô, these maps represent Japan and the surrounding area circa 18th century and were adapted from Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan, University of California Press, 1993)1. East Asia
3. Japan
4. Kantô Plain
5. Tôkai Region
6. Kinai Plain
7. Kyûshû
8. Edo
9. Kyoto
10. The Tôkaidô (map and images from Hiroshige's "Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô")