“The map was found by my brother in a Japanese temple in the mountains of Japan,” said Dr. The map is drawn on the principle of the Mercator Projection showing the North Pole as the center of a circle in which arc the continents of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Kobayashi, the well-known Japanese physician and surgeon of Honolulu, has received a copy of the map, which he believes to have been made by Chinese priests ten centuries ago. It is a map of the world made 1000 years ago. Stranger almost than the “Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder” is the copy of a map which came across seas to Honolulu from a Buddhist Temple in the mountains of central Japan. There’s a pretty good indication that the journalist who wrote the piece knew it was a hoax: He compares it to James De Mille’s 1888 novel Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder, a satirical tale of an underground world. Like the Zeno Map, the original was also allegedly rotten with age, explained by a mysterious ancient letter unseen by anyone else, and it also serves to glorify the geographic areas connected to its “discoverer.” In this case a Japanese resident of Hawaii found a map in Japan that was ignorant of Madagascar, Greenland, and Polynesia but somehow managed to include Hawaii front and center! As with that infamous map, this one is also a redrawn modern copy of an allegedly ancient map unseen by anyone. But as critical readers will notice, the story has more than a few hints of the Zeno Map story. As I wrote in a blog post discussing this article, the following article comes to us from the Januedition of the Hawaiian Gazette and alleges to be a map of the world made in Japan more than 1,000 years ago.
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