Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Japan in a new-found world , Elusive islands of silver : Japan in the early European geographic imagination , Mapping the margins of Japan , The creators and historical context of the oldest maps of the Ryukyu kingdom , The introduction of Dutch surveying instruments in Japan , The European career of Ishikawa Ryūsen's map of Japan , A new map of Japan and its acceptance in Europe , The arms and legs of the realm , Visualizing the political world through provincial maps , Fixing sacred borders : villagers, monks, and their two sovereign masters , Self-portrait of a village , Characteristics of premodern urban space , Evolving cartography of an ancient capital , Historical landscapes of Osaka , The urban landscape of early Edo in an East Asian context , Spatial visions of status , The social landscape of Edo , What is a street? , Locating Japan in a Buddhist world , Picturing maps : the "rare and wondrous" bird's-eye views of Kuwagata Keisai , An artist's rendering of the divine Mount Fuji , Rock of ages : traces of the gods in Akita , Cosmology and science in Japan's last Buddhist world map , Fun with moral mapping in the mid-nineteenth century , A travel map adjusted to urgent circumstances , Legendary landscape at the Kitayama Palace , New routes through old Japan , Seeking accuracy : the first modern survey of Japan's coast , No foreigners allowed : the shogunate's hydrographic chart of the "holy" Ise Bay , Indigenous knowledge in the mapping of the northern frontier regions , Mamiya Rinzō and the cartography of empire , Outcastes and peasants on the edge of modernity , Converging lines : Yamakawa Kenjirō's fire map of Tokyo , Mapping death and destruction in 1923 , Rebuilding Tokyo after the great Kanto earthquake , Shinjuku 1931 : a new type of urban space , Mapping the Hōjō colliery explosion of 1914 , Cultivating progress in colonial Taiwan , Showcase thoroughfares, wretched alleys : the uneven development of colonial Seoul (Keijō) , Imperial expansion and city planning : visions for Datong in the 1930s , A two-timing map , Visions of a new order in the Asia-Pacific , Blackened cities, blackened maps , The occupied city , Sacred space on postwar Fuji , Tange Kenzō's proposal for rebuilding Hiroshima , Visions of the good city in the rapid growth period , On the road in Olympic-era Tokyo , Traversing Tokyo by subway , The uses of a free paper map in the internet age , Tsukiji at the end of an era , Probabilistic earthquake hazard maps , Citizens' radiation maps after the tsunami , Run & escape! , Postmortem cartography : "stillbirths" and the Meiji state , Reconstructing provincial maps , The art of making oversize graphic maps , Engl.