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

That, too, was the direction in which Mangi and Cathay were to be found according to the map of Toscanelli, assuming Cuba to be Cipango: which Columbus at this stage of his enterprise confidently believed.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

But after various operations in Hayti, marked with both trials and triumphs, during his second American expedition he returned to the Cuban coast for further explorations of what he still thought to be Cipango.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

He was utterly convinced, now, he had reached Cipango, that wonderful spot which, according to Marco Polo, possessed mountains of gold, and a shore the sands of which were strewn with oriental pearls.

From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard

Confining myself purely to those who essayed the passage to Cathay Cipango, and the Indies, by the north-west, first on the glorious scroll stands Frobisher.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Osborn, Sherard