The Portolan

Issue #125 - Spring 2026

ARTICLES

Mapping the Floating World: Proto-Cartographic Narratives in Chobunsai Eishi’s ‘Three Gods of Fortune Visit the Yoshiwara’ WINNER 2025 RISTOW PRIZE   by Kelen Quintana

Primer on European Printing & Papermaking from the 15th to 19th Centuries   by Eliane Dotson

The Evolution of Map Images in Double-Hemisphere Maps of Quing China   by Shan Changchen

Map Sox? - ‘Not for Navigation’  by Dennis Reinhartz

The Land of Parrots on the 坤輿 (Kunyu): Matteo Ricci’s 1602 World Map   by Robert J. King

Focus on Exploring New Cartographic Frontiers and Personal Insights   by Laura Krueger

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Laura Krueger.

BOOK REVIEWS

L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map that Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century (Reviewer: Matthew Rarey)

Rediscovering Turtle Island: A First Peoples’ Account of the Sacred Geography of America  (Reviewer: Robert B. Caldwell Jr)

Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775–1783  (Reviewer: Mark Maloy)

Cartes et fictions (XVIe—XVIIIe siècle). (Reviewer: Dr. Leonid S. Chekin)

SHORTER ITEMS

1. WMS President’s Spring 2026 Letter, by Jeffrey Katz

2. Washington Map Society Meetings Program, Spring 2026, by Ron Grim

3. Remembering Nancy Goddin Miller (1940-2025), by Ron Grim

4. Passing of Bill Doying, by Tom Sander

5. Exhibitions and Meetings, by Tom Sander

6. Ristow Prize Competition 2026, by Deepak Bhattasali

7. Cartographic Notes, by Tom Sander

8. Internet Map Sites (non-commercial)

9. Index to Advertisers