17th-18th Century Transformation of the Japanese Archipelago

This little article will be a continuation of the geographical metamorphosis which occurred in the very recent past. The previous two articles were:

• 400 year old Sahara Desert, or why people forgot everything they knew about Africa
• Bizarre transformation of the North American Continent: 16th through 19th centuries

This time we will take a look at the just as bizarre of a transformation of the Japanese Archipelago. Let's see what the official version has to offer, "Around 23 million years ago, the now Western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15-20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. Around 16 million years ago, in Miocene period, a peninsula attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent was well formed. About 11 million years before present, the parts of Japan which become modern Tōhoku and Hokkaido were gradually uplifted from the seafloor, and terranes of Chūbu region were gradually accreted from the colliding island chains. The Strait of Tartary and the Korea Strait opened much later, about 2 million years ago. At the same time, a severe subduction of Fossa Magna graben have formed the Kantō Plain."

Japanese Archipelago 20,000 years ago
at the Last Glacial Maximum

Vegetated land (yellow) - Unvegetated land (white)​

You have to love our contemporary science: 20 million years ago, 16, 12, 2 million .... 20,000 years ago. How do they know all those things when they clearly have no clue what was happening in this area just 200 years ago. Are they trying to mislead the world population on purpose. If so, what could their agenda be? On the other hand if you push something 20 mil years back, a few will question anything. After all they know better.

This is becoming pretty comical in light of all the other historical shenanigans, and inconsistencies. The only sad part is that our contemporary scientists have no respect for their own predecessors. I personally think that this disregard for the wisdom exists on purpose, and due to whatever agenda.

If the cartographers of the past were as messed up as we are lead to believe, than how could they produce maps as accurate as this: Aerial view map of Villa Adriana by Battista Piranesi. How were those maps used for navigation? Unfortunately, our contemporary pseudo-scientists achieved their goal of convincing everybody, that ancient maps were, more or less, for decoration purposes.

Clearly, the map makers of the past knew their trade. Well, let us see what the islands of Japan looked like a few hundred years ago.

Additional attention could be paid to the city names in Japan of the 16th and 17th century: Dinlai, Homi, Amaguco, Hormar, Mazacar, Reix Magos, Lequis Maior, Bandu, Tonza, Menlai - have you ever heard about Japanese cities, or towns like that? Only Cangoxina sounds somewhat close to Kagoshima. What happened to those municipalities?

IAPAN by Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
1570 - Map Name: Indiae Orientalis

IAPAN by Rosaccio, Giuseppe and Ruscelli, Girolamo
1599 - Map Name: Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio

IAPAN by Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657, and Hondius, Jodocus
1642 - Map Name: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula

IAPAN by Speed, John
1651 - Map Name: New and Accurat Map of the World

IAPAN by Visscher, Claes Jansz
1652 - Map Name : Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

NIPHON by Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
1705 - Map Name: La Partie Orientale de l'Asie ou se trouvent Le Grand Empire des Tartares Chinois et celuy du Japon.

IAPAN by Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632-1712
1706 - Map Name: Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique

JAPANIA REGNUM by Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
1739 - Map Name: Imperii Russici et Tatariae Universae

JAPON by Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773
1754 - Map Name: Carte du Royaume et des isles de Lieou-Kieou

Isles du Japon by Raynal, G.T. and Bonne, R.
1780 - Map Name: Carte de l'Empire de la Chine

Empire of Japan by Robert Laurie & James Whittle
1794 - Map Name: Japan, Korea

* * * this BIZARRE map * * *
around 1804 we get our well known lay out of Japan

JAPAN by Arrowsmith, Aaron
1804 - Map Name: Japan

JAPAN by Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826
1809 - Map Name: Japan

JAPAN Today

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Above is the 200 year transition of the Japanese Archipelago, during which none of the "ancient" cartographers noticed that the layout of Japan was very much different from what they were depicting. Not a single seafarer corrected the tremendous layout errors. Of course, when the 19th century came about, our civilization suddenly figured out that they had it all wrong.

Marco Polo and Japan

Marco Polo was the first European to write about Japan. It is unlikely that he visited Japan [this is how our contemporary pseudo-scientists speculate and discredit]. Most likely his accounts are based on what he heard about Japan in China and from sailors he met. in the latter half of the 13th century Marco Polo, a man from Venice, Italy, wrote a book entitled The Description of the World:in which he introduced the country of Japan to the Western world as Jipang. or Cipungu, “the land of gold." His book was mostly a collection of his experiences and information about his journey through central Asia and China.

In 1299 Marco Polo wrote in The Description of the World: “I tell you that this palace is of... unmeasured wealth." Its roof is sheathed in gold “in such a way as we cover our house with lead." Even the floors are gold, “more indeed than two fingers thick. And all the other parts of the palace and the halls and windows are likewise adorned with gold." Waters of the coast yield “red pearls — very beautiful and round and large."

Marco Polo wrote that Japanese fashion their idols "in a variety of shapes, some of them having the heads of oxen, some of swine, goats and many other animals. Some exhibit the appearance...of three heads, one of them in its proper place, and one upon each shoulder...The various ceremonies practiced before these idols are so wicked and diabolical that it would be nothing less than an abominations to give an account of them...Putting their prisoners to death they cook and eat the body, in a convivial manner, asserting that human flesh is above others in the excellence of its flavor."

The Sea of Japan Marco Polo wrote "contains no fewer than seven thousand four hundred and forty four islands, mostly inhabited. It is said that of the trees which grow in them, there are none that do not yield a fragrant smell. They produce many spices and drugs, particularly lignum-aloes and pepper, in great abundance, both white and black. It is impossible to estimate the value of the gold and other articles found on the island, but their distance from the continent is so great, and the navigation attended with so much trouble and inconvenience, that the vessels engaged in the trade...do not reap large profits."

Gold Finds Throughout the Years in Japan
Today we know, that Japan has crumbs for Gold.​

Japan has always been lacking in minerals and precious resources that were needed to grow its blossoming economy over the years. There has never been much in the way of large scale mining that took place there in terms of gold or other important minerals.

Despite any economically important deposits, gold has been found there on a smaller scale throughout the years since it was first discovered way back in the 13th century. Most of this gold came from only one of three places in the country.

Sado Kinzan Gold Mine (source) gold mine had been active from the 1600’s all the way through until 1980. For many of those years it was the only active gold mine in Japan and was a considerable operation for that time. The mine is located in Niigata Prefecture. Total production for this mine is an estimated 78 tons of gold and 2,300 tons of silver. This was extracted from 15-million tons of ore. The depths of the mine tunnels go as far as 800 meters below the surface, and there are believed to be around 400 kilometers of mine tunnels. There used to be two additional mines: Toi, and Konomai, but they produced very insignificant amounts of gold.

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The transformation of the Japanese Archipelago between 1600 and 1800 is consistent with the other layout changes happening in the world around the same time frame. This is the third article I did on the topic. There will be a few more coming.

Tiny Summary: whatever happened, shredded Japan to pieces. Whatever wealth and gold was witnessed by Marco Polo perished in the cataclysm, which changed the Island of Iapan forever. Whatever emperors used to rule Japan, were ruling it no more. And those Emperors looked nothing like the Japanese of today.

1690 - Empereur du Japon
by Nicolas de Larmessin

1719 - Emp du Japon
by Manesson Mallet

1779 - Empereur du Japon

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Somehow the above Japanese Royalty resembles their kin from North America, and Tartaria, way to much. I wonder why? The similarity does not end with physical resemblance only. Somehow, neither of the Empires (Iapon, North American Kingoms, and Tartaria) survived the era of colonization.

Add to it a few Japanese buildings like this, and we have a full picture of our confusing history.

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[kulapono]

Perhaps they have no agenda. Those poor scientists were probably spoon fed methods of dating that they learned in university. I don't doubt the dating methods, but perhaps the 'accepted as fact' reference tables' numbers are way off to give the impression of 'millions of years ago.' If a researcher were to go against the scientific community standards, the funding received would dry up and he/she wouldn't have a job as well as being ridiculed and ostracized.
It would take a very confident researcher to claim that accepted practices are flawed and go against the norm. Stolen History has taught me that the numbers get played with. What better way to promote inaccuracy than to instill it in the educational system. Someone did.

 

[Ancient Soul]

As an amateur map researcher i can tell you that Japan has indeed very minor changes. If you look at the last 4 old maps that you presented you can identify most of the islands and the general shape of "Iapan" as it stands today. The reason why it looks different is more of a political situation. From these old maps i gather the empire of Iapan did not have the island that we call Hokkaido today so it only spread to the north of the Honshu region. Hokkaido island was called Jeso Gasima and was probably part of Great Tartaria or an independent nation.
Now of course some small islands may have been lost or buried by the flood deposits of the great flood cataclysm of ~200 years ago, but the majority of the mainland of Japan is still there. Being such a tiny stretch of land i imagine the huge tidal wave washed over it completely and probably nothing survived. All those great cities of gold and jewels, wiped off the face of the Earth by 300m high waves. I know it sounds ridiculous if you think about it, but look at Northern Asia on any modern map. What used to be one of the biggest empires on the planet, Great Tartaria is now reduced to hundreds of km of flood plains and thousands of lakes. If the flood wiped out almost half of Northern Asia, you can imagine what happened in Japan...
No one survived. After the waters settled, Japan was a ghost land with many ruined cities. Yes, of course some of the grand buildings survived, after all tartarians knew how to build and had that amazing cement that was 95% waterproof.
As for the kings, they look very indo-european, but they do have some traces of asian people, just a little. However, as far as we know, the history of Japan doesn't mention anything about tartarian kings or any kings of North Asia descent. Almost the entire history of Japan is manufactured, beyond 200 years ago, of course.
What i think happened: after the cataclysm the islands of Japan were completely devoid of life. But the controllers had plans for them as well, just like they repopulated the Americas by moving millions of refugees, immigrants and orphans (remember the US orphan trains?). They simply moved a bunch of south east asian people in Japan and gave them a new narrative. They say it only takes 3 generations to introduce a completely new culture onto an indoctrinated population. Who knows what lies they fed those poor people when they moved them to the deserted islands of Japan, but seeing how life was miserable after the great cataclysm i bet many people were wiling to move to a new land full of empty promises and fresh illusions. I bet many families started over in new lands and it was quite common practice in the 19th century. The more you look into the mass imigrations and orphan movement in the 19th century, the more bizzare the narrative appears.
What i can't understand is how people forgot about this great cataclysm and have no stories of the old world. Were they kept in underground bunkers for 100 years until the indoctrination took hold? Why does the whole of humanity have this great amnesia when it comes to the cataclysm? I have put a lot of puzzle pieces together over the last few years, but there are still so many mysteries...

 

[Banta]

What i can't understand is how people forgot about this great cataclysm and have no stories of the old world. Were they kept in underground bunkers for 100 years until the indoctrination took hold? Why does the whole of humanity have this great amnesia when it comes to the cataclysm?

This is where I suspect that various mythologies and religions have been back dated, to send the cataclysm(s) into the distant past. After a few hundred years, the descendants of the survivors would have nothing more than perhaps some family stories and it would seem easy to convince people that those are either fictionalized or a much older tradition.

 

[Sonofabor]

Dazed and confused: the standard condition.

 

[kulapono]

This is where I suspect that various mythologies and religions have been back dated, to send the cataclysm(s) into the distant past. After a few hundred years, the descendants of the survivors would have nothing more than perhaps some family stories and it would seem easy to convince people that those are either fictionalized or a much older tradition.

I've noticed that all mythologies and fables are primarily just moral lessons to teach children right and wrong. Secondly, a quick fix explanation of why this is this and that is that.

 

[ViniciusB]

Perhaps they have no agenda. Those poor scientists were probably spoon fed methods of dating that they learned in university. I don't doubt the dating methods, but perhaps the 'accepted as fact' reference tables' numbers are way off to give the impression of 'millions of years ago.' If a researcher were to go against the scientific community standards, the funding received would dry up and he/she wouldn't have a job as well as being ridiculed and ostracized.
It would take a very confident researcher to claim that accepted practices are flawed and go against the norm. Stolen History has taught me that the numbers get played with. What better way to promote inaccuracy than to instill it in the educational system. Someone did.

Interesting take, but there's reason to doubt both the methods and dates, obviously. As an example, radiation is known to decay organic matter pretty quickly. What happened after ww2 that every country under the influence of US or soviet Russia did?? Bomb tests, in huge numbers (tests, or destruction of our past??) and all that radiation went to our atmosphere. Not a single article that i saw about carbon dating even mentions this!!