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Yama-dera (山寺, lit. "Mountain Temple") is about a twenty minute train ride (Senzan-sen Line) northeast of Yamagata City, in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan located at the foot of the steep hill Houshuuyama.
The area is named after the common name of the temple of Risshakuji (立石寺), founded in 860 AD by the priest Ennin (円仁) (AD 793 or 794 - 864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師).In 847 he returned to Japan from China and in 854, he became the chief priest of the Tendai sect at Enryakuji. Risshakuji was founded as a branch temple of Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto, and even today the ritual fires brought from Enryakuji are still burning in the main temple. It developed into the major Heian period (794-1185) temple for rural Dewa province (now Yamagata and Akita prefectures). This main temple, the Konpon-chudo, an important cultural asset, is said to have been built in 1356 by Shiba Kaneyori, Lord of Yamagata Castle. Most of Risshakuji was destroyed during the local wars of the early 16th century and it was rebuilt in 1543 under the monk Enkai. By the Edo period (1600-1868) Risshakuji was a powerful institution possessing a fief of 1,420 koku. The present Konpon Chuudou ( Main Hall) is a Muromachi period (1333-1568) construction of beech, which is rare as a building material.The temples clinging to the steep rocky hillsides are picturesque and unusual, and the thousand step climb up through the dense cedar trees is worth making to the temples at the top, and for the view from them. An important cultural asset, the Heian period Seated Wooden Image of Yakushi Nyorai (the Buddha Bhaisajyaguru) is the principal image of the main temple. Yamadera holds many other important cultural assets in its treasure house, the Hihokan, including Standing Wooden Images of Shaka Nyorai, Yakushi Nyorai and Amida Nyorai, a Seated Wooden Image of Dengyo Daishi, a Hanging Wooden Mandala of Buddha, and a Stone Monument of the Nyohokyo Sutra from 1144. Yamadera is where the well-known haiku poet Basho wrote his famous haiku "ah this silence / sinking into the rocks / voice of cicada" in 1689. A museum of Basho's writings and paintings and other related art, the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum, is a short walk up the hill on the opposite side of the steep valley.
Here's the pirate map I made for my 23rd birthday party where I went on a cupcake crawl of Sydney. We visited all of the cupcake parlors in Sydney in one day!
The estate and village of Lochinvar, Hunter's River, laid out in farms and allotments, for sale by auction by Mr. Smart.
Sydney : Barlow, Litho., c. 1840
Subdivision sales plan for the town of Lochinvar, situated on land that is part of an original 2,000 acre land grant to Leslie Duguid in 1823.
Shows numbered farm portions and allotments with dimensions (listed in "Table of contents"), homestead, garden & orchard, Loch Katrine, cultivated land, adjoining properties: of L. Duguid, Mrs Harper's fram, Windemere, the estate of W.C. Wentworth, Luskintyre, the property of W.C. Wentworth, two reserved roads, area reserved for watering place, Major Mitchell's new road, Hunter River.
Dated to 1840 by report of the sale in the Australian (Newspaper) March 19, 1840, p. 4.
Lithuania. Map of the country and landscapes.
Postcard PUse Plus Kaunas. Photos : A. Uzgalis.
Postcrossing LT-8412 , thank you Justina.
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Credit: Laurie VanVleet, Ithaca City School District
Created in: Terra server
Location: Taughannock Falls State Park
Description: Topographic map
This is a map of the New York City area showing the "Most Direct Routes to the New York World's Fair", with a second map on the back showing Manhattan and the location of the World's Fair exhibition itself. The map was distributed by General Motors to promote its "Futurama" exhibit, which like its 1939-1940 predecessor became the most popular exhibit of the entire event, drawing more than 29 million visitors over the course of the Fair. The back panel lists and gives details on 63 attractions in New York, which are identified by numbers on the map.
Folded, the map measures 5"x8", and unfolds to 10"x16". It is in amazing condition, having been tucked inside a GM Futurama brochure (also listed here) - it appears to be unused, and the only condition issue is a diagonal crease across the bottom right corner of the front.
I loved these hand drawn maps that I would see around Japanese cities. They list the various businesses in a radius of a couple of blocks.
1955 USGS map shows phosphate mines near the Peace River between Fort Meade and Bowling Green along with the route of the ACL line. Courtesy University of Florida
This map includes the major counties, explorer routes, roads and a description of topography of the south western corner of Western Australia. It was produced in 1851 by the British cartographic publisher John Tallis and Company, renowned for their decorative illustrated maps.
Western Australia, Swan River, 1851, B/1/5 State Library of Western Australia, catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1840530~S2#.U7zovfmSyGc
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displayed Arms and Armour at The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India (Mumbai museum)
A Map Showing the Places in Wicklow Visited by some Travel Writers in 18th and 19th Century & the Routes Taken
39. Grand Prix Osterhas am Ostersamstag, 31. März 2018, auf der Lindenmoosstrasse in Affoltern am Albis. Kategorie Elite-Amateure..Foto Martin Platter
Myriahedral maps in the Graphic Design Museum, Breda, The Netherlands. Part of the InfoDecData exhibit
For more information on these maps visit Jack van Wijk's page
I honestly don't know whether this map will HELP . . . or HINDER your attempts to make sense of my large up-load of photos about Das-Marinas ~ within whose boundaries my bungalow lies !
The red circle is 'roughly' the area covered by the municipality of the City-of-Das-Marinas . . .
that circle is about five miles in diameter.
The Old Town ( 'BAYAN' in Tagalog-language ) is shown by the small circle, left, 1-mile across.
The mustard-yellow road, running vertically down the picture, through the old town, is the Emilio-Aguinaldo Highway .... W = Walter-Mart, and H = the Hospital. R, below, = Robinsons.
That highway runs for 20-miles North, off the top of this map, passing through the cities of IMUS, then BACOOR, on its way to Manila Airport . . . then on to the vast THOUSAND SQUARE MILES of METRO-MANILA . . . half-as-big-again as Greater-London, England !!
The other mustard-yellow road, running diagonally across the map, is Congressional Avenue,
which passes right through my village, San-Manuel-II ~ which is opposite Area-1, from the church, to just beyond my bungalow.
If you are still confused, just send me a Flickr-mail !!
This is a "map" I made several years ago inspired by the famous Alfred Korzybski quote, "The Map is not the Territory". The scale of the map is 1 foot = 1 foot
I recently came across this very related quote from Jean Baudrillard referencing a story by Jorge Luis Borges by way of Kevin Kelly's book, "Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines".
"French pop-philosopher Jean Baudrillard opens his small book, Simulations (1983), with these two tightly wound paragraphs:
If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few threads still discernible in the deserts...) then this fable has come full circle for us...
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory -- PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA -- it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself."
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The maps here are neither accurate nor precise, it doesn't reflect the real path that I travelled
41. Grand Prix Osterhas, Kategorie Elite, am Ostersamstag, 16. April 2022 in Affoltern am Albis.
Foto Martin Platter
A map from the Worldmapper World Population Atlas: www.worldpopulationatlas.org
(c) Sasi Research Group, University of Sheffield
The Badaguan area of Qingdao, China, is a residential area just east of downtown (beginning right around the No. 1 Bathing Beach and going eastward a few kilometers, bordered by Zhongshan Park & Taipingshan Park on the north and the sea on the south). It’s primarily a residential area with beautiful, tree-lined streets. The heart of Badaguan consists of ten streets. “Ba” is the number “eight” in Chinese. “Da” means “big,” and “guan” means “(mountain) passes.” (Keep in mind that Mandarin is a tonal language so, saying “badaguan” differently would have a vastly different meaning.) That being said, I’ll stop with the personal commentary and just transcribe the signage in the area as it states things much better than I can:
Badaguan Scenic Area was built in the first three decades of the 20th century. It is called “Badaguan” as the eight roads in the area were all named after China’s important passes in history (now there are ten roads), namely, Shaoguan Road, Ningwuguan Road, Zijingguan Road, Shanhaiguan Road, Juyongguan Road, Linhuaiguan Road, Zhengyangguan Road, Hanguguan Road, Jiayuguan Road, and Wushengguan Road, which cover several square kilometers of seaside scenic area along the Huiquan and the Taiping Bays. The trees in the area vary from road to road, blending harmoniously with the nearby buildings: crape myrtles along Zhengyangguan Road, cedars along Zijingguan Road, peaches along Shaoguan Road and Chinese flowering crabapples along Ningwuguan Road. Most buildings in “Badaguan” are villas with courtyards, typical of the modern European architectural style, known as “World Architectural Fair,” with famous buildings such as, among others, “Huashilou House” and “Princess House.” The scenic area was listed as a state protected historic site in 1996, and was appraised as “the most beautiful city area of China” in October, 2005.
I’ve lived in China for almost three years now; about two years in Shanghai and one year in Tianjin. Shandong province is the province that’s on the sea between the two cities. (From Shanghai to Tianjin by train is around 5 hours; by plane, 2 hours.) Qingdao, probably the most well-known city in Shandong, is a charming city, to say the least. In my opinion, it’s exceptionally photogenic – with very nice beaches, great architecture, good geography/topography, and terrific food.
Qingdao also happens to be known for the most famous of Chinese beers (Tsingtao), which is actually a company started by the Germans. (For what it’s worth, Chinese beers are quite watery and Tsingtao is somewhat like the Budweiser of Chinese beers. That being said, I’m happy to drink an ice cold Tsingtao on a hot summer day whereas I wouldn’t say the same thing about a Budweiser.
So what to make of Qingdao then? Before colonial powers swept in and started chopping up China piecemeal, Qingdao was basically a sleepy fishing village. During the Ming dynasty, a battery was built here. In 1898, the Germans seized control of Qingdao when two missionaries were killed. (Personally, it seems alarming to me that a country could lose a city because two foreigners happened to be killed – and China sure lost a lot that way during the 19th century. I guess that’s the downside to outmoded military technology; the Europeans and Americans basically plundered China…) At any rate, Qingdao was ceded to the Germans for 99 years, but that didn’t last long, thanks to World War I.
During the 15-20 years that the Germans did have control of the town, they managed to build a handful of churches (still standing) and missionaries, in addition to the aforementioned Qingdao brewery. Because of that, a lot of the European architecture has a heavy German influence and there are still a few random signs of German heritage around town.
From the Germans, Qingdao didn’t land directly with the Chinese. It spent 8 years under Japanese control (1914-1922) before being returned to the Kuomintang (aka General Chiang Kai-Shek’s clan). The Japanese took control once again in 1938 (as they swept through northeast China and across half the country) before losing it for the last time in 1945 at the end of World War II. Since then, it’s been in Chinese hands. (Brief history courtesy of Lonely Planet.)
Contemporary Qingdao certainly makes its way as a tourist destination – and it’s a fine one at that. The population (per my LP from 2011) lists it at 1.73 million. The city has a few areas that are quite appealing to tourists: the Old Town (the heart of the city) off the beach and just east of the railway station downtown, Badaguan (which means “eight passes”) is a hilly area with a lot of nice residential architecture to the east of the Old Town. Other than that, there are a lot of parks, a beer street, churches, and a 40 km. scenic walk (which, obviously, most people do not cover from end to end) along the shore which goes by all of the beaches in the area.
All in all, Qingdao is the type of town that, if you get the chance to visit, I think you would find yourself thinking it would be great to return again and again.
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Exercise Jebel Sahara - Joint military exercise between the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and the 2nd Parachute Batalion of the Royal Moroccan armed forces. Held near Marrakech every two years.
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3D map image for the Rallye Dakar discussion thread in the andino pool.
The base data - mapped into my 3D model and rendered as illustration - is by Tom Patterson of the US National Park Service.