This woodblock print map of Japan’s Mt. Fuji, which can be folded to represent the mountain’s iconic conical shape, was produced by an unknown publisher sometime around 1848. Writing about ...

Subtle and delightful! As Harvard's John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically "a 19th century PalmPilot." Alas -- for both ladies of London and for fans of quirky tech -- "as far as ...

Last year was an excellent one for engaging Chinese art in western Japan. A series of exhibitions ... in the works of the mid-19th century Shanghai School, a loosely affiliated group of ...

As a result, since the mid-19th century, biologists have identified ... and their collaborators in Japan, mapped global biogeographic regions for a major insect group, ants, providing the first ...