World Geography Book - Sekaiichirisho

Japanese: 世界地理書 - せかいちりしょ

This refers to books on world geography from the Edo period. In ancient Japan, the three countries of Honcho, Tang, and Tenjiku were generally considered to be the entire world, but with the arrival of Europeans at the end of the Warring States period, people learned of the existence of a vast world, global theories, and world maps. However, no world geography books exist from before the country was closed to the outside world. For a long time since the early Edo period, the foundations of world geography for Japanese people have been the Kunyu Bankokuzenzu (Map of the World) and its topographical descriptions by the Christian Matteo Ricci (Rimado), who lived in China at the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing dynasties, Giulio Aleni's (Gaiji Yuryaku) Shokuho Gaiki, and Verbiest's (Nan Huairen) Kunyu Gaiki.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代における世界地理の書をいう。日本では古来，本朝，唐，天竺の3国をおおむね全世界と考えてきたが，戦国時代末からのヨーロッパ人の渡来により，広大な世界の存在や地球説，世界図を知ることになった。しかし，鎖国以前の世界地理書は見当たらない。なお江戸初期以来長く日本人の世界地理の基礎となったのは，明末清初の中国に在留した耶蘇会士マテオ･リッチ(利瑪竇（りまとう）)の《坤輿（こんよ）万国全図》とその地誌的記載，アレーニGiulio Aleni(艾儒略（がいじゆりやく）)の《職方外紀》，フェルビースト(南懐仁)の《坤輿外紀》などである。

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