Daimin Ittoushi - The Great Ming Dynasty

Japanese: 大明一統志 - だいみんいっとうし
Daimin Ittoushi - The Great Ming Dynasty

A geography book compiled as a national project during the Ming Dynasty in China. It has 90 volumes. It describes the geography of the entire territory by administrative division, and at the end includes an explanation of the surrounding Asian countries as foreign barbarians. It was completed in 1461 by Li Xian and others, but was actually based on the Huanyu Tongzhi, compiled in 1456. In addition to the first edition published by the government, several private editions were published later, and the edition from the end of the Ming Dynasty contains arbitrarily revised sections on the local government system, etc. These privately revised editions have been reprinted in Korea and Japan. It can be said that the knowledge of Chinese geography held by scholars in the Edo period was based almost entirely on this book.

[Hibino Takeshi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

中国、明(みん)代に国家事業として編集された地理書。90巻。全領土の地理を行政区画別に記述し、終わりに外夷(がいい)として周辺のアジア各地のことを付説している。1461年李賢(りけん)らの手で完成したが、実は1456年につくられた『寰宇通志(かんうつうし)』がもとになっている。政府の出した初版本のほか、のちに何種かの民間本も出ており、明末のものには地方制度などについて任意に増訂した部分がある。朝鮮や日本ではこの種の民間増訂本を複刻している。江戸時代の学者の中国地理に関する知識は、ほとんど本書に拠(よ)っているといってよい。

[日比野丈夫]

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