Description of the Kingdom of Japan
work by Varenius
Also known as: “Descriptio Regni Japoniae”
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- In Bernhardus Varenius
In 1649 he published Descriptio Regni Japoniae (“Description of the Kingdom of Japan”), which in addition to describing Japan included a Latin translation of an account of Siam (Thailand), possibly by the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, and excerpts from the Arab traveler and geographer Leo Africanus on religion…
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