Talk:Japanese maps

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A beautiful article; very extensive and thorough, and professionally approached. Domo. LordAmeth 21:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I came across this article and have re-assessed it. The B-class Assessment scale was never filled out, so the old assessment was never official. I have rated the article as Start-class and note the following deficiencies:

References - The article is sorely lacking in references.
Coverage - The history is adequate, but it stops at the Meiji Period.
- More research needs to be done to trace the use of maps up to and through WWII.
- It could be mentioned that modern maps of towns and cities in Japan depict individual property boundaries and even the family names of owners, so they can be used as a public directory. This practice departs sharply from Western (or at least American) maps where privacy is considered of paramount importance.
Supporting materials - There should be images of some of the older maps. One per section would be ideal, though it may get cluttered. At least one for every significant period and/or major innovation in cartography.

Good luck. Boneyard90 (talk) 17:41, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gyōki-zu

I do not examine the whole article in detail, but I found that at least the section of Gyōki-zu, added by Jb-05-nps (talk · contribs) in 2006, is highly problematic. It is a consensus in academics that the traditional attribution of Gyōki-zu to Gyōki is unfounded, just like the attribution of the Iroha poem to Kūkai. For a nice survey of previous cartographic studies, see Ryū no sumu Nippon 龍の棲む日本 by Kuroda Hideo 黒田日出男 (2003). --Nanshu (talk) 13:15, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Geospatial Information Authority of Japan

Any chance to include details for the office maintaining maps at the present? It could be how gaihōzu was incorporated to present day maps by Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Also the National Diet Library of Japan; NDL has a Map Room (地図室 (Chizushitu, Map section)) holding gaihōzu, as well as 古典籍資料室 (Kotenseki shiryōshitsu, Historical References section) for those pre-Meiji maps, as you might gave thoughts to mention. --Omotecho (talk) 21:55, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Currently useless

The single most obvious feature of Japanese maps is that they're centered on the Pacific but not quite on Japan themselves. What meridian or range of meridians specifically are used for those maps? and are there any official rules about it or it is entirely conventional? — LlywelynII 08:11, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]