Cipango
Americannoun
noun
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Would Samarkand or Cathay or Cipango have suffered the same fate if visited?
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
It has been commonly assumed, apparently with little dispute or attempt at investigation, that Cipango was Japan.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
This Cathay and Cipango business was an affair of Castile's, and, as such, quite beneath the notice of patriotic Aragonese archivists!
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
Thus the eastern coast of and of the position of Cipango.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
"What wouldst thou, good Martin Alonzo?" answered the admiral: "I am here, watching for the shores of Cipango, or Cathay, whichever God, in his goodness, may be pleased first to give us."
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
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