“Mapnimal” of Asia

By Alex in Book & Literature, Travel on May 21, 2008 at 8:55 am

BibliOdyssey has a really neat post about this caricature map of Asia by Tanaka, titled "The Illustration of The Great European War No. 16," where Russia is depicted as a big bear, China as a pig, India as an elephant and so forth: Link


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  1. Christophe
    May 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    France a tiger in European wars? When was this made? ;)

  2. CheeseDuck
    May 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    Seriously. This looks really old.

  3. Archbob
    May 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Why is france a tiger? Is this like pre-napolean?

  4. Idil
    May 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Turkey’s a tiger! yay!

  5. Louisa
    May 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    The Arabian peninsula looks like a pink Barney the Dinosaur smacking Africa in the head. Where is Ireland?

  6. ted
    May 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 am

    Cute how America seems to have replaced Australia.

  7. nashwa kowa
    May 18th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    hi my name is nashwa


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