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Kevin I asked a colleague in linguistics with some Japanese (William Steed) who offers the following in case of use: "I can’t translate them well – my Japanese is far too rusty and this isn’t standard Japanese (even for the time, I suspect). For 1781, it’s written in a pretty colloquial style, which I suspect is also a dialect. It doesn’t look like a Ryukuan dialect though. It does have a description of some of the contents (from picture 1): 11 larger islands in total, 260 villages (in the smaller Ryukyus), something like “In the south, from southern Taiwan to the Ryukyu mountains are the same class”. Maybe this might help a little, but I don’t think I can add anything else without going beyond my knowledge into pure speculation. Will" Susan PhD candidate Classics School of Cultural Enquiry A D Hope building #14 The Australian National University Tel. 02 6125 9591 ----- Original Message ----- From: Geographicus Antique Maps <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:00 am Subject: [MapHist] 1781 Japanese Translation Help To: 'Discussion group for map history' <[email protected]> > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're > replying to the whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > o + o + o + > Dear Maphisters, We just acquired an unusual 1781 Japanese map of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands. I am wondering if there is anyone out there skilled in Tokugawa Japanese who might be able to help me translate that attached text blocks? Thank you in advance, Kevin Brown ____________________________ Geographicus Rare Antique Maps 201 West 105th Street, Ste. 42 New York, NY 10025 - USA Tel: 646-320-8650 eMail: [email protected] www.geographicus.com > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the > University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any > responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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