Gabor Lukacs

Bio: Gabor Lukacs is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Empire. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 7 citations.

Mapping Mount Kōya, one of Japan’s Most Revered Pilgrimage Sites

Abstract: This paper describes the earliest surviving hand-coloured manuscript maps as well as later printed maps of Mount Kōya, (高野山, Kōyasan in Japanese), a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Japan's mo...

Chikyû Bankoku Sankai Yochi Zenzu Setsu: The First Japanese World Map with Latitudes and Longitudes and with an Extensive Japanese Explanatory Note

Abstract: In the early 1780s, Nagakubo Sekisui, the first Japanese scientific geographer, published a world map containing latitudes and longitudes, based on Matteo Ricci's map of 1602. The map and its extensive explanatory text had a considerable impact on the educated classes of the late Edo Period (1603–1868) toward their new vision of the world. We are providing here an analysis of the map and the first complete English translation of Nagakubo Sekisui's most interesting, long explanatory text.

Da Ming Sheng Guo: An Important Little Known Seventeenth Century Manuscript Map of China

Abstract: This paper describes a very rare, hand-coloured, unusually large (over 13 m2) manuscript map of China about which, in addition to our own copy, only two more copies are known. The map shows the territory of the Ming Chinese empire (1368–1644) in the seventeenth century. It was prepared in 1691 by the famous Japanese Buddhist monk, Sōkaku (1639–1720). The paper highlights several historical and geographical details of the period and the most interesting history of the map.

A history of Japanese astronomy : Chinese background and Western impact

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Les Recueils illustrés de lieux célèbres {meisho zue), objets de collection. Leur Réception dans les milieux de la Société des études japonaises à travers l'exemple de la Collection d'Auguste Lesouëf (1829-1906)

Abstract: Des l'ouverture du Japon dans les annees 1850, les guides illustres des lieux celebres (meisho zue) firent l'objet en Occident d'une intense curiosite de la part des artistes, collectionneurs et savants. Ce genre, defini a la fin du XVIIIeme siecle, se developpe dans un contexte editorial marque par l'importance de la litterature de divertissement illustree, destinee a un public tres large. Ces ouvrages se presentent comme une liste de noms de lieux se succedant le long d un itineraire fictif, accompagnes d'illustrations gravees en noir. L'abondance de l'iconographie, qui puise a diverses traditions picturales, et la presence de texte sous forme de repertoire, charge de references litteraires, en font des objets interessants a etudier du point de vue de leur reception. Ces guides illustres furent notamment collectionnes et utilises comme outils de travail par les premiers savants de la Societe des etudes japonaises. La fortune critique de ces ouvrages dans les publications de la Societe donne des indications tres precises sur la place de ces sources dans les etudes japonaises de l'epoque ; a cet egard, une comparaison avec le regard des collectionneurs japonistes est eclairante sur la diversite de l'utilisation de ces ouvrages illustres dans les milieux lies au Japon.