Minimum Mapping to Master

Etch the following aspects of Japan and the surrounding area well enough into your memory to be able to reproduce them for the Map Quiz on Friday, 9/13.

Use the maps in Modern Japan and on the below list as study guides. You will be given a blank map of Japan and the surrounding area to fill in:

The four main Japanese islands of:
Honshû, Shikoku, Kyûshû, Hokkaidô
The smaller Japanese islands of:
Tsushima and Sado
The Ryûkyû Islands, noting the island of Okinawa
The han (domains) of:
Satsuma, Chôshu, Tosa, Mito
The plains of:
Kantô and Kinai (Kansai)
The cities of:
Kyoto, Osaka, Edo/Tokyo, Shimoda, Hakodate, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
The bodies of water of:
The Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan
The surrounding territories of:
The Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Taiwan, China coast, Korea
Mt. Fuji


(Note: These maps represent Japan and the surrounding area circa 18th century and were adapted from Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan, University of California Press, 1993)

1. East Asia

2. Hokkaidô

3. Japan

4. Kantô Plain

5. Tôkai Region

6. Kinai/Kansai Plain

7. Kyûshû

8. Edo/Tokyo

9. Kyoto