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Zipangu

British  
/ zɪˈpæŋɡuː /

noun

  1. Marco Polo's name for Cipango

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Dudamel used a score for Zipangu, but then conducted La Mer and Firebird from memory.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

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

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

Columbus' Zipangu, unlike Marco Polo's, thereafter grew swiftly on both economic and personal speculation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people belonging to them, by floating on pieces of the wreck, saved themselves upon an island lying about four miles from the coast of Zipangu.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Lodge, Henry Cabot