{"id":5178,"date":"2012-02-22T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T06:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:10:07","slug":"old-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/02\/22\/old-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Maps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the ever eye-pleasing online notebook of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-grange.net\/2012\/02\/16\/carte-japon\">sir Karl de la Grange<\/a>, this delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b59627433\/f1.zoom.r=japon.langFR\">Renaissance-era map of Japan <em>in French<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b59627433\/f1.zoom.r=japon.langFR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/old_japan_map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Old map of Japan\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/old_japan_map.jpg 560w, https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/old_japan_map-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an odd bit of cartographic precision, <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/maps\/m8nm3\">Okazaki<\/a> (in today&#8217;s Mie-ken) is specifically annotated as the seat of &#8220;the most beautiful women in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the ever eye-pleasing online notebook of sir Karl de la Grange, this delicious Renaissance-era map of Japan in French: In an odd bit of cartographic precision, Okazaki (in today&#8217;s Mie-ken) is specifically annotated as the seat of &#8220;the most beautiful women in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}