Zipangu
Britishnoun
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Zipangu was the name given to Japan by Marco Polo, and Vivier, much travelled in Asia, deploys a string ensemble of 13 players to evoke an austere, ritualised world by means of shifting colours and drones.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
Dudamel used a score for Zipangu, but then conducted La Mer and Firebird from memory.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
Columbus' Zipangu, unlike Marco Polo's, thereafter grew swiftly on both economic and personal speculation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language, be called 'a conservative investment.'
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be observed that there is no other continent between Spain and Zipangu or Japan, while the fabled islands of St. Brandan and Antilia are represented bridging the expanse between the Azores and Japan.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs
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