Niphon

Starbuck found Ahab with a general chart of the oriental archipelagoes spread before him; and another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the Japanese islands — Niphon, Matsmai, and Sikoke.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The white bosoms of the square-sailed junks heaved with breezy pulses, the mountains were thrones of stainless blue, the floods of sunny splendor and the intense fullness of light, for which the cloudless sky of Japan is remarkable, told the reason for the naming of Niphon, of which "Japan" is but the foreigner's corruption,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

The eastern coast of Niphon, along which we are now cruising, has several admirable harbours and sheltered anchorages.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

July 27th -- We have now reached the northern end of Niphon, and turned westward into the broad strait of Tsugar, which separates the greater island from Yesso.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Fifty millions of people are to be enlightened; the printing press is yet to catch the daily thought and stamp it on the page; the magnetic wire must yet tremble along her highways, and Niphon yet tremble to her very centre at each heart-beat of our ocean steamers, as they sweep through her waters and thunder round her island homes.

The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

Fusi-yama -- "the peerless," "the matchless," or "the unrivalled," -- is an extinct volcano, on the island of Niphon, though, only a century since, it was in active operation, and is said to have been brought into existence in the space of a few days.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Japanese a room crowded with luxurious upholstery is a specimen of barbaric pomp, delighting the savage and unrefined eye of the hairy foreigners, but shocking to the purged vision and the refined taste of one born in great Niphon.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

Can it be that this is the primitive Japanese race -- that the more enlightened people of Niphon trace their origin to such a degraded source?

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

And now I can hardly restrain myself from passing on to Asia; for imagination, taking fire, beckons to Niphon and the Flowery

Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" Heman White Chaplin 1885

The position of Sangar Strait, between Yezo and Niphon, being very uncertain, Kruzenstern resolved to determine it.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866