All maps are cartifacts – objects embedded in social relationships. Maps are also vehicles of knowledge exchange and social intercourse, making possible global connections that are still continuing now. Although their technology constantly changes, we rely on maps to understand our place in the world.
Online Talk: The Blending of Art and Cartography in Japanese Imaginaries of East Asia youtube
Edited Volumes:
2025 (forthcoming) Japan Mapped Within and Without: Reflections on the Sir Hugh and Lady Cortazzi Collection at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
2024 (in press) Enduring Encounters: Maps of Japan from Leiden University Libraries, co-edited with Martijn Storms. Leiden: Brill.
Peer-reviewed Articles
2020 ‘Maps of the World in Early Modern Japan’. In: David Ludden (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press.
2019 ‘Maps as Knowledge Vehicles: Insights from the Collections of Leiden University Library’. In: Martijn Storms et al. (eds) Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters between East and West Conference Proceedings. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 147-67.
2017 ‘Turning “Sites of Remembrance” into “Sites of Imagination”: The Case of Hideyoshi’s Great Buddha’, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 2: 125-35.
2014 ‘Brazilian Cannibals in 16th century Europe and 17th century Japan’, Comparative Critical Studies 11 supplement: 109–30.
Book Chapters
2023 (in press) Fluttering Ambition: Heteroglossic Geographic Knowledge on a Sixteenth-Century Folding Fan. In: Michael Zimmerman et al. (eds.) Dialogical Imaginations. Zürich: Diaphanes.
2022 1815 – Imaginary Travel from Edo to Nagasaki. Glimpses of an Isolated Archipelago. In: Martijn Storms (ed.) Maps that Made History. Tielt: Lannoo, 224-25.
2021 Edo and Tokyo in Maps. In: Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard (eds.) Tokyo: Art & Photography. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 44-51.
2020 The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan. In: Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and Zef Segal (eds.) From News Maps to Motion Maps. Mapping Stories and Movement through the Times. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 105-28. review
2017 Cartography and the ‘Age of Discovery’. In: Peter Vujakovic and Alex Kent (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography. London: Routledge, 134-44.
Book Review
2022 Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan, by Robert Goree. The Journal of Japanese Studies 48-1: 258-63. DOI
Other Publications
2023 ‘Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter’. Map Chats, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.
2019 The Significance of Maps on Ceramics in Japan. Kyōtogaku Rekisaikan kiyō 2: 61-76. PDF
2018 Competing Views of the World in Early Modern Japan. In: Tristan R. Grunow and Naoko Kato (eds.) Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library.
2017 ‘A User-centred Reinterpretation of the Siebold Incident’. IIAS Newsletter 77: 6.