Map of Ezo Matsumae - Ezo Matsumaezu

...The variety of maps he published and the extent of their influence on later generations are rare, even in the Edo period. His major works include the Revised Map of the Routes of Japan (1779), which was a copy of Mori Yukiyasu's map but was the first published map to include latitude and longitude lines; the Great Qing Guangyu Tu (1785), the largest published map of China in the Edo period, which used a Western-style map of China (the Imperial Comprehensive Map) created during the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty; the Tang Dynasty's Rekidaishugun Enkaku Chizu (Map of the History of China in China) (1790), which was probably the first historical atlas in the Orient to include coloring of mountains, rivers, and borders; Matteo Ricci's egg-shaped world map, the Complete Map of the Mountains and Seas of the Earth, by Matteo Ricci (c. 1788), which was a direct revision of Hara Mei Sadakiyo's map (1720); and the Ezo Matsumae Map (c. 1795), based on maps created by the Edo shogunate's first Ezo survey team in 1785-86 (Tenmei 5-6). Other works include travelogues such as "Nagasaki Gyokaku Nikki" and "To-o Kikou," as well as "Annan Kuni Hyoryuki," a story about the drifting of citizens of the Mito domain.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Ezo Matsumae Map" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…彼が刊行した地図の種類の豊富さおよび後世への影響の大きさは，江戸時代でも例が少ない。おもな作品としては，森幸安の図の模倣ながら刊行図として初めて経緯線を記入した《改正日本輿地路程全図》(1779)をはじめ，清の康熙年間に成った洋式中国全図(《皇輿全覧図》)を利用した江戸時代最大の刊行中国図《大清広輿図》(1785)，東洋ではおそらく山河，境域に着彩した最初の歴史地図帳《唐土歴代州郡沿革地図》(1790)，直接には原目貞清の図(1720)を改訂したマテオ･リッチ卵形世界図《地球万国山海輿地全図説》(1788ごろ)，1785‐86年(天明5‐6)の幕府第1次蝦夷地調査隊作成図による《蝦夷松前図》(1795ごろ)を挙げることができる。このほか《長崎行役日記》《東奥紀行》などの旅行記，水戸藩領民の漂流についての《安南国漂流記》などがある。…

※「蝦夷松前図」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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