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David Rumsey Map Collection Unveils Japanese Maps
 http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/
Last Updated: 5/10/2003
This really isn't related to Japanese gardens, but, as someone who works with analytical map
information systems for my day job, it is a topic near and dear to my heart. The David Rumsey Collection and
Luna Imaging have recently teamed with the Univ. of California, Berkeley, to make their oustanding
collection of Japanese maps (the most comprehensive in the world, outside Japan) to the public
by doing some high quality scanning and referencing of the images. The collection was
acquired by the University of California from the
Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. As many of the maps are very fragile
this is going to make them available to a much broader audience than would otherwise have ever been
the case. But if you are interested in historic Japanese maps, you can find out more at http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/
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