This image shows: Oldest occidental manuscript map of Japan. Sheet 8 from the Atlas by the Portuguese Cosmographer Fernao Vaz Dourado from 1568 and in the collection of the Duchess of Alba (Palace of Liria in Madrid). Photographed by the author and so far unpublished. Original 395 mm by 265 mm.

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Keywords: 1500s, 1560s, 1568, 16th, cartographer, century, dourado, fernao, japan, maker, map, mapmaker, portuguese, vaz