This is the English edition of the Polish Atlas Swiata. This massive atlas (weighing nearly 5.5 kilograms and containing 48 square meters of maps) is of high cartographic and aesthetic quality, and provides a rich assortment of thematic (over 400) as well as hundreds of physical and political maps. Includes pictures of the flag and a synopsis for each country. Liberal yet tasteful and effective use of tinted colors, especially for topography and bathymetry. Rich use of symbolism creatively conveys the data in a clear manner. Many maps of urban areas. Printed on beige paper. Printed in Warsaw, Poland. Book No. 08 001958 7. Post and screw binding coupled with frequent use of fold-out maps eliminates any problem with the gutter.

Korea. (inset) Cheju-do. Pergamon World Atlas

Korea, 1967

Bellin was an important maker of charts for the French Depot de la Marine. He was born in Paris in 1703 and educated as an engineer. He produced many important charts and published them individually and in compilations. The Neptune Francais was published in 1753 and the Hydrographie Francaise in 1756. His largest and most comprehensive work is the Petit Atlas Maritime with 581 charts (our copy has 582, including the rare "Carte Reduite des Decouvertes des Russe Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique.") that cover the coasts and important port cities of the known world. The Petit Atlas Maritime is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. Bellin died in Versailles in 1772. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves.

Carte du royaume de Kau-li ou Coree, copiee sur la carte Angloise.

Korea, 1764

Color pictorial map of Japan and Korea, published as a series of Mem-o-Maps at the end of World War II, as souvenirs for the military. Includes inset banner, Military personnel could fill in with their name, organization, etc. Shows various landmarks, place names and two banners "Came in on good ship" and "departed on good ship". Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative compass rose oriented with north to left margin.

Mem-O-Map of Japan and Korea

KOREA CITY PLANS 1:12500 KYONGSONG OR SEOUL (KEIJO)

Seoul (1946)

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

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

East Asia (1903)

This place is special to me because it is such a lovely, charming, and weird location in South Korea with a wonderful history. Imsil introduced cheese to the Korean diet in 1958, when a Belgian man moved to the region. He raised goats and made his own cheese, and the governor at the time requested that he teach the skill to others in the community. Imsil Cheese Theme Park provides a place to have fun, learn about cheese, and make it yourself!

Imsil Cheese Theme Park in South Korea

Downtown Gyeongju, South Korea

South Korea

韓国旅行で行くべきスポット
ファッションやお土産、観光におすすめ

韓国女子旅

The Chinese Empire and Japan

Chinese Empire and Japan, 1882

Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie

Great Tartary, 1708

Jeju Island is a beautiful island filled with history, nature and pop culture to the south of South Korea.  Small but dense enough in things to experience that there is something to do no matter the time frame.  Partake in the island's unique citrus fruit and decadent black pork, hike along it's many Olle trails or visit the Unesco site "Sunrise Peak", or visit one of its many unique museums, dedicated to a number of interesting subjects. Jeju island is rich in history and brimming with adventure!

Jeju Island

Traveling is not only with airplanes, traveling is everywhere, even online…
Recently I have been thinking of an amazing place amid the CORONA situation. 
The world is challenged with the CORONA virus. People are discouraged to go out and most people are already working from home and wearing mask is the new fashion. This is the new normal in 2020. Recently. while trapped at home,  I am thinking of a wonderful place to run away, where it is quiet, peaceful and safe. 
Wonderful travel destinations around LADAKH in North India, Tibet, Himalayas, Pamir, etc.
These places are very challenging to visit. 
I watched the movie ‘3 Idiots’ and I am captivated with a scenery at the last scene of the movie. 
It was a scenery of LADAKH that features its beautiful lake Tso Moriri. 
LADAKH is also said to be the intersection of the ancient Silk Road and Tea Horse Road.
I get so interested in this place that  I did my  research and watched a Korean documentary called “Tea Horse Road”. 
This is a difficult route for merchants who traded at the highest points in the world from the 7th century to the 20th century. This not a typical road, it is so narrow and dangerous  that it said  to be the route that only birds and rats can pass. 

After searching the internet, I wanted to draw a map and share it with you.

This is a video link to share my experience.
If you are interested, you may also look for more videos available on Youtube.

Online travel to North India (traveling is everywhere, even online…)

How are you all spending your time amid the CORONA  situation?
I have been traveling online all the time recently.
K-drama has been very popular all over the world. Just recently, Crash Landing On You topped on most viewed K-drama in Netflix worldwide. With it’s gained popularity many become interested if they really shoot the film in North Korea since the setting of the drama is in North Korea. 
Today, I would like to introduce where it really happens. 
I was very interested just because North Korea is not very open for tourists, therefore, it is very impossible to have the setting of the K-drama there. 
-But the artists and the production really did well in making it a realistic North Korea. They even perfectly imitated the North Korean accent. 
In  reality, the place isn’t really filmed in North Korea but rather in Mongolia.
The following scenes were specifically  filmed in September 2019.
・Scene of Seri and Captain Lee riding a train
・Scene from the  broken train and a bonfire in the meadow
・Station where the train arrives
・The scene of Dan taking a taxi to visit Captain Lee

CRASH LANDING ON YOU FILM LOCATIONS (Mongolia)

Bird's-eye view map of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Karafuto (Sakhalin). With insets of a globe depicted in the middle of main map, showing Japan and its colonies in red, Ryukyu Island, Taiwan and Karafuto. Published as supplement to newspaper 'Tokyo Asahi shinbun' issue no. 12352 in Nov. 3, 1921. Shows the topography, place names, mountains, rivers, roads and railways. Major railways are shown in bold red line. Planned railway lines shown in thin red lines. Text in Japanese.

Bird's-eye view map of the new Japan

Color map. Shows lines of air attack to Japan, distances, bases, major cities, population, rail roads, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes and text: "This map, in line and legend, pictures possibilities of invasion by way of China and Korea, by way of Russia and briefly, from the north by way of Alaska ..."

What are the possibilities of attacking the Islands of Japan?

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)

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

Spaceport Map Remix：SPACE AND OUTER SPACE

備考 
・折りたたみ19cm 
・昭和3年11月20日印刷 昭和3年11月30日發行 
・「昭和3年8月7日 呉鎭守府要塞指令部認可濟」 
・裏に「廣島瓦斯電軌沿線名所案内」あり

宮島廣島名所交通圖繪

Miyajima, Hiroshima (1928)

Miyajima, Hiroshima (1928)(copied)

備考 
・折りたたみ18cm 
・「繪に添へて一筆」昭和10年春

天下ノ絶景面河渓

Omogo-kei, Shikoku (1935)

ドラマ愛の不時着の撮影地（韓国）をまとめたマップです。