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Cipango

American  
[si-pang-goh] / sɪˈpæŋ goʊ /

noun

Archaic.
  1. Japan.


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

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

"To Cipango, and the territories of the Great Khan; forty days' sail from Gomera, and a country of marvellous beauty and excellence!"

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

Hearing of Cuba and believing that it was Cipango, he planned to visit the mainland and go to the city of Guisay, the Quinsai of Marco Polo.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

But now after coming more than 2,500 miles he began to fear that he might be sailing past Cipango on the north, and so he shifted his course two points to larboard, or west-southwest.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John

On the coasts of Cathay and Cipango forty years ago.

From Select List of Books ... Relating to the Far East by Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark