Cipango

American  

[si-pang-goh] / sɪˈpæŋ goʊ /

noun

Archaic.

1. Japan.

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Cipango British  

/ sɪˈpæŋɡəʊ /

noun

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

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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

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

Then about thirty-five days’ favorable sailing would bring one to the islands of “Cipango,” or Japan, which Marco Polo had said lay off the continent of Asia.

From Project Gutenberg