Cipango

[si-pang-goh]

noun

Archaic.

1. Japan.

Cipango

/ sɪˈpæŋɡəʊ /

noun

1. (in medieval legend) an island E of Asia: called Zipangu by Marco Polo and sought by Columbus; identified with Japan

Example Sentences

Would Samarkand or Cathay or Cipango have suffered the same fate if visited?

From Literature

He began to hear of an island in that direction named Cuba, which, from the mistaken ideas of geography current at the time, he took for Marco Polo’s famed gold island of Cipango.

From Project Gutenberg

We need not say that he reached neither Cipango, India, nor the Khan; but he did discover Cuba, that beautiful island of the Caribbean Sea long dear to the heart of every consumer of the fragrant weed.

From Project Gutenberg

On the coasts of Cathay and Cipango forty years ago.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the etherealized spectacle of the sanguine hopes of all the conquistadores who had set sail for the rubies of Cipango; they had had great desires of white marble cities in which the women were lovely and dark, and gold was worked into the forms of every day.

From Project Gutenberg