Historical Maps of Japan

MAP COLLECTIONS & atlases

• Blank and Outline Maps of Japan (d-maps.com)
• Asia Maps: Digital Collections (Pardee School of Global Studies - Center for the Study of Asia)
• Asia Maps Collection (University of Southern California)
• Historical Atlas: Reconnecting Asia (Center for Strategic and International Studies(
• Historical Maps of Asia (University of Alabama)
• Historical Maps of Asia (John C. Huntington)
• A History of Japan During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse (1542-1651) (J. Murdoch,  I. Yamagata, 1903)
• Historical Maps of Japan (University of Alabama)
• Historical Maps of Japan (American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection)
• Historical Maps of Japan (David Rumsey Map Collection)
• Historical, Demographical and Economical Maps of Japan (G. William Skinner, University of Washington)
• Japan Historical GIS (CHGIS Harvard University)
• Japan: Historical Maps Collection (Library of Congress)
• Japan: Historical Maps Collection (Yale University Library Digital Collections)
• Japan Maps (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
• Japanese Historical Maps (East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley)
• Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era (University of British Columbia)
• Old Maps of Japan (oldmapsonline.org)

MAPS

• The Provinces of Old Japan
• The Provinces of Premodern Japan (Adolphson, Gates of Power, 2000)
• The Provinces of Medieval Japan (Hall, Nagahara & Yamamura, Japan before Tokugawa, 1981)
• The Gempei War, 1180-1185
• Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1281
• Muromachi Shugo, c. 1390
• Regions raided by the Japanese freebooters, 1400-1600
• Muromachi Map (in Japanese)
• Japan in the 16th Century
• Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1525
• Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1545
• Oda Nobunaga Map, 1549-1582 (in Japanese)
• Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1550
• Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1560
• Key Daimyo of the Warring States Map, c. 1560 (nippon.com)
• Japan in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (Wikipedia)
• The Unification of Japan, 1560-1590
• Japan, 1564-1573 (Murdoch and Yamagata, Nihonshi nembyo chizu, 1900)
• Feudal Map of Japan between 1564-1573 (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1572
• Major Sengoku Daimyo, c. 1572 (Hall, Nagahara & Yamamura, Japan before Tokugawa, 1981)
• Japan, 1573-1583 (Murdoch and Yamagata, Nihonshi nembyo chizu, 1900)
• Feudal Map of Japan between 1573-1583 (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Japan after Nobunaga, Spring 1583
• Map of Japan in Provinces in Time of Iyeyasu (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Feudal Map of Japan before Sekigahara (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Les alliances en présence au début de la campagne de Sekihagara
• Sekigahara Campaign, 1600
• Map of Korea (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Feudal Map of Japan, 1615 (James Murdoch, Iosh Yamagata, A History of Japan..., Kobe, 1903)
• Major Domains and Castle Towns, circa 1660
• China and Japan, 1832 (John Dower)
• The Japanese Empire’s Evolution, 1870-1945 (Enc. Britannica)
• The Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895
• China and Japan, 1894
• China and Japan, 1899
• The Railway Map of Japan, 1900
• The Japanese Empire: The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912)
• Johnston’s Russo-Japanese War Map
• The Russo-Japanese Conflict, 1904 (in Italian; A. Vallardi)
• The Russo-Japanese War
• The Russo-Japanese War
• A New Map of the Chinese Empire with Japan and Korea, 1901 (Rand McNally)
• Japanese Empire, 1920 (Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1920)
• Japan and Korea: Detailed Map of the Railway Network, 1927
• Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
• Manchuria: The Topographical Map of Manchukuo
• Manchuria: The Railways System Map
• Manchuria: The Railways System Map
• Manchuria: A Political Map
• Imperial Japan at its fullest extent during World War II (Wikipedia)
• Japan, the Target: An American WII Propaganda Map
• Japanese American internment, 1942-1946 (britannica.com)
• Asie Est, 1943 (Girard & Barrère)
• The Japanese Empire, 1943 (George Philip and Son)
• Map of the Japanese Army Ground Forces in Japan, August 1945
• Japan and Korea in 1945 (National Geographic)
• Japan’s Regional GDP, 2008