Note 22 — INDEX
Reading edition
Zipangu and Cipangu are renderings of the Chinese Jih-pên (“the place the sun comes from”), with the word Kuo, “country”, added. The Japanese Nihon or Nippon, and our Japan, are other renderings of the Chinese name which was first used officially in Japan in the seventh century A.D. Earlier Japanese names include Yamato and Ō-mi-kuni, “the great dragon (mi) land”, &c. ↑