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(Clockwise from top left) Fujino Sachiko’s Forming A Voice - White, the entrance to the Mint Museum of Toys, and a fan with a map of China and Beijing.
PHOTOS: MULAN GALLERY, NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD, ONG SOR FERN
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Mapping the World: Perspectives from Asian Cartography
The first map in this exhibition is, surprisingly, a plate. The 19th-century Arita ware with a map of Japan on it is a signal that this is no ordinary map show. Instead of Western cartographs, this show offers cloth paintings, metal objects and even a fan created through the ages by Asian mapmakers.
