Map Shorts
Description: Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu (Outline Map of All Countries of the Universe). First Japanese Buddhist Map of the World Showing Europe, America, and Africa circa 1710. A seminal map. This is the first Japanese printed map to depict the world, including Europe and America, from a Buddhist cosmographical perspective. Printed by woodblock in 1710 (Hoei 7), this map was composed by the Buddhist monk Rokashi Hotan. Inspired by the 1653 publication of Si-yu-ki, a pilgrimage narrative of the Chinese monk Hsuang-Tsang's (602-604) travels to India in search of sacred Sanskrit writings, Rokashi Hotan's map attempts to update Buddhist mythological cartography.
Description: In 2017, on the tenth anniversary of exploring Los Angeles neighborhoods as "California Fool's Gold," I went on a few explorations accompanied and suggested by friends. My friend Machiko suggested that we explore the malls of Koreatown, which I thought was a great idea. https://ericbrightwell.com/2017/07/20/urban-rambles-exploring-koreatown-malls-with-machiko/
