Map of Kyoto Gion Festival / Atomatsuri
Click a "Yamahoko" picture, then you can see the photo and the explanation.

Kyoto Gion Festival / Atomatsuri

There is still much to see at the Gion Festival!
You will find lots of fun, such as a flower umbrella tour from the Ofuna Pass, and late-night mischief Kannon.
I drew a map of the festival after the Gion Festival of my house.

My recommended spots for Atomatsuri during Kyoto's Gion Festival

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This project is a collaboration between the Kyoto Newspaper, a local newspaper, and Stroly, a digital map platform from Kyoto.This festival, which has been held in Kyoto for more than 1,000 years, is the result of a great variety of cultures and histories that have been interwoven into the festival to this day. The Gion Festival is famous for the Yamahoko and Yamahoko Junko floats, which are deployed in the city center for only a few days, but in fact, related events are held throughout the city of Kyoto during the month of July every year. The Gion Festival is such a unique festival, and one of its charms is that there are 100 different ways to enjoy it for every 100 people. We hope that this Gion Festival Digital Map will enrich your stay and experience in Kyoto.

Ato-Matsuri / Gion Festival Digital Map 2025

「大津町古絵図（大津市指定文化財）」は、江戸時代中期に作られた現在の大津百町エリアの地図です。このエリアは、江戸時代に東海道の宿場町、琵琶湖の玄関口としての港町、三井寺の門前町として、町がかたち作られました。その後、明治以降の鉄道開通や湖岸の埋め立てなどによって町の様子は変化し、琵琶湖岸の様子は大きく変化しましたが、町なかの様子は現在のマップと比べても変化が少なく、江戸時代の町割りが色濃く残されていることがわかります。周囲の安全確認しながら、地図を切り替えて確かめてみてください。
　また、マップには大津市歴史的風致維持向上計画の策定の過程で確認された、大津百町エリアの観光、文化財、四季、祭、人々の営みがわかるスポットを紹介しています。古い写真や動画を盛り込んでおり、楽しく学べるマップになっていますので、ぜひご活用ください。
　最後に、「大津町古絵図」は、山が上、湖が下と、現在のマップと比べて南北が逆に描かれています。大津百町を描いた絵図は、ほかにも現存しますが、ほとんどが南北が逆に描かれています。このデジタルマップでは北を上にしていますので、見づらいかもしれませんが、ご了承ください。

大津町古絵図（市指定文化財）　江戸時代　個人蔵

Spaceport Map Remix：SPACE AND OUTER SPACE

"Base 801760 (B01335) 1-92." Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Taiwan

Taiwan (1992)

Shows government and private railways (operational and under construction), stations steamer lines, underwater cables, roads. Also capital cities, hot springs, shines, temples, mines, resorts.

To make this map more legible and useful, small railway stations which do not lead to any special place of interest for foreign visitors are not shown

On verso, tourist information.

Scale 1:1,640,000 (for Hondo, Shikoku + Kyushu).
Scale 1:2,340,000 (for Chosen).

Insets:
Osaka and cities near by. Scale 1:367,000.
Tokyo and vicinity. Scale 1:350,000.
Hokkaido. Scale 1:2,530,000.
General map of Japan. Scale ca. 1:12,000,000.
Karafuto (Saghalien). Scale 1:3,700,000.

Railways of Japan (1927)

備考 
・ 折りたたみ28cm 
・「大阪毎日新聞大正十六年元旦附録」、「要塞司令部認可」 
・「（明治25年3月25日第三種郵便物認可）」 
・「大正16年1月1日　大阪毎日新聞　第15668號附録」 
・裏に「九州名所遊覧案内」あり

Pictorial Bird's-eye View Map of Grand Kyushu

Kyushu (1927)

China, 1901

Map of China. Compiled by John A. Diakoff, scientific colaborator of the former Russian Oriantalist's Society ; Drawn by Mr. G. Primakoff. Engraved by Mr. P. Sergeeff. Approved by: Department of Education of the Three Eastern Provinces, Institute of Oriental and Commercial Sciences and Pedagogical Institute, Harbin. Recommended for use in Middle and High Schools. Published by Northern Trading Co., Ltd. & Mr. V.F. Yan-hsiun. Printed by the Lithography of the "Northern Trading Co., Ltd. Harbin. 1931. (insets) January Isotherms. (with) July Isotherms.

Map of China. Compiled by John A. Diakoff

China

The Chinese Empire and Japan

Chinese Empire and Japan, 1882

Relief shown by hachures.
Scale 1: 8,997,000

Rand, McNally & Co.'s China. Chinese Empire with Japan and Korea

East Asia (1903)

中文: 新版《時局圖》, 可能繪於1900年至1904年之間。作者謝纘泰用以表達19世紀末當時西方列強勢力佔侵中國地區的概況。 
English: Newer version of THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST (時局圖). Its author (Tse Tsan-tai, 1872-1939) depicted the western powers encroaching on China at the end of the nineteenth century in symbolic form. At the left "to be clear at a glance" (一目了然), at the right, "self-evident" (不言而喻). The bear representing Russia is intruding from the north, the bulldog head with a lion body representing the United Kingdom is in south China, with its tail around the Shantung peninsula (Wehai english colony was the seat of the British bulldog in the first version of the cartoon), the Gallic frog, is in southeast Asia, with an inscription "Fashoda", in reference to Fashoda Incident opposing Britain and France in Africa. The frog has the Hainan Island in its right hand, in reference to Guangzhouwan, and part of the Sichuan in its left hand. The bald eagle representing the United States is approaching from the Philippines (the U.S. had already invaded the Philippines at this time). On the eagle is written "Blood is thicker than water", a reference to U.S. Navy Commodore Josiah Tattnall's saying in 1859. The symbolic Sun behind Japan spreads its rays across Korea onto China, while Japan fishes for Taiwan. Qing Amban is on Tibet and chinese teacher on Mongolia and Xinjiang with turco-mongol man. Some other European countries, following Prussia, are waiting to invade China at the bottom of the map. 
Français : Nouvelle édition de « Carte de la situation politique » (時局圖), avec sur le coté gauche, « qu'on saisit à première vue » (一目了然) et à droite, « Cela va sans dire » (不言而喻). L'auteur (Tse Tsan-tai, 1872-1939) l'utilise pour exprimer l'invasion des puissances occidentale à la fin du XIXe siècle. L'ours représente la Russie au Nord, Le bulldog britannique (dessiné avec un corps de lion dont la queue entoure la Péninsule du Shandong, où se situait la colonie Britannique de Weihai), le Royaume-Uni au Sud-Est, la grenouille (vision britannique de la France), avec l'inscription Fashoda (en référence à la Crise de Fachoda, fashoda incident en anglais, opposant Britanniques et Français en Afrique), au Sud, venant d'Indochine (alors colonie française). La grenouille tient de la main droite l'île de Hainan, en référence à la possession de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan et la main gauche sur une partie du Sichuan. La Pygargue représente les États-Unis au dessus des Philippines qu'ils avaient à cette époque envahi. Le soleil du Japon caché sous derrière le pays envoie quelques rayons vers un fumeur d'opium chinois, allongé au milieu de la carte, tout en tenant d'un lasso Taïwan. Un Amban des Qing est au Tibet et un enseignant chinois, est sur la zone des turco-mongols (appelés Tartares par les européens) de Mongolie et du Xinjiang. Quelques autre pays font la queue pour envahir la Chine (en dessous de la carte) ; Prusse, suivie par d'autres pays européens, Empire austro-hongrois, Italie, Suisse...

Far East Asia (1900-1904)

Planned American Flight to the Moon

Planned American Flight to the Moon, 1969

This map won't save our elephants, but it will help. Here’s to a unique insight into an elephant's world, our interconnectedness, new ways of creating hope and getting restless about protecting what we love.
With every map purchased, The Elephant Map Project will donate 100% of their net profits to The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on their 40th anniversary.
You can purchase the map at the following link: https://www.elephantmap.com/shop

The Elephant Map

Editor: Chandler B. Beach (1839-1928), A.M. Associate Editor Frank Morton McMurry (1862-1936), Ph.D. Publisher:F.E. Compton and Company. 
Subtitle: for teachers, students and families 
Place of publication: Chicago

The New Student's Reference Work

Asia (1914)

Due to the influence of COVID-19, people had no choice but staying home and avoid unnecessarily travels. The first impact hit the cultural aspect of our lives. In Japan, the declaration of emergency has been lifted, and gradually some museums are reopened, but it is not still the same as before the pandemic.
This map supports your cultural activities by taking you museums in Japan and worldwide!

Museum Hopping Map

A very interesting 1853 (Kaei 6) Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima. Presented on a cylindrical projection, this map marks a significant advancement in Japanese globular cartography and a far more sophisticated adaptation of western cartographic standards than is evidenced in most earlier Japanese world maps. No longer reliant on 17th century Dutch maps acquired via the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) trade concession in Nagasaki, the Japanese have here abandoned many of the antiquated cartographic notions, such as an insular California, which were common in Japanese maps of the previous decade. Japanese cartographers may have been motivated to update their traditional world view in the light of the explosion of cartographic ideas associated with the arrival in Edo Harbor of the American Commodore Matthew Perry in the same year this map was published. As a whole this map offers a sophisticated cartographic presentation of the world embracing the most up to date cartographic knowledge available in the mid-19th century. Though adapted to the Japanese printing style, this map presents a generally accurate world view. British Claims to Washington and British Columbia are noted in North America, Australia and the Pacific are accurately rendered, as are the discoveries of Vitus Bering and James Cook in the Arctic, and Africa is clearly pre-Speke. The disputed East Sea / Sea of Japan / Sea of Korea is here labeled as the Sea of Joseon (Korea), which some scholars suggests indicates Japanese acceptance of the “Sea of Korea” convention. Four hemispheres appear in the lower left quadrant, from left, the southern, northern, eastern, and western. All are on a stereographic projection. The map is printed on woodblock and hand colored in vivid, blues, greens, oranges, and yellows. A fine example of the redefined Japanese cartography style of the later Tokugawa period.

Japanese Map of the World

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Don Homuth; September 2011. Accompanied by envelope containing illustrations, CD-ROM of Ferguson family gravesite, transcriptions of Orlando Ferguson's obituaries, and photocopy and CD-ROM of "The globe theory of the earth refuted". Fold-lined. Conserved.

Map of the square and stationary earth : four hundred passages in the Bible that condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and none sustain it ; this map is the Bible map of the world

Square and Stationary Earth (1893)

Color pictorial map of the world, on sheet 87.5x114. Stereographic projection. Includes legend, text boxes on historical events, and note at the head of the map "La charte de l'Atlantique" with the signatures of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14, 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. Map shows political boundaries, major cities, vignettes representing various agricultural products, industry and mineral resources. Includes compass rose, distances, naval and air bases. This French edition is rare.

Carte de la charte de l'Atlantique

Map of the Atlantic Charter (French), 1943

Hand colored outline pictorial map of the world on Mercator projections. Relief shown pictorially. Showing sun and moon in left and center of map, Compass rose on lower center. Statistical tables above and bottom of the map. Title provided by cataloger.
Copyright, 1932. by Hendrik Willem Van Loom. "This map of the world is drawn according to the projection of Gerard Kremer of Gerardus Mercator, by his good neighbor. Thanks, Hendrik Van Loom".

World Map, 1932

SPACEPORT MAP #3

SPACEPORT MAP #8

SPACEPORT MAP #4

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A new map of the whole world with the trade winds according to ye latest and most exact observations. By H. Moll Geographer. Printed for Thos. Bowles Print and Map Seller next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Churchyard, and John Bowles Print and Map Seller a