Gaihozu: Gaihozu Collection at UW

The UW Gaihozu Collection contains 2,525 "outer land" or 外邦 and 4,445 "inland" or 内国 maps. The following subpages contain more details about the scope of the UW Collection, along with information on accessing items in the UW Gaihozu Collection.

• The list of UW's Gaihozu holdings : this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
• See Holdings at UW and Japanese Institutions on CARTO
• Using the Naikokuzu Collection
• Gaihozu and Naikokuzu at UW have been processed with great help by the student employees, volunteers, and visiting librarians. Read what it was like for two of the student employees to help processing the Gaihozu and Naikokuzu maps:
  • My Time Working with the Gaihozu by Benjamin Narkmon
  • Mapping Maps: Cataloging UW's Gaihozu Collection by Ross Henderson (TEAL Newsletter, Autumn 2020, p10)

For more information on accessing and using the collection, please contact: