The kuniezu (国絵図) were a series of Japaneseprovincial land maps, created during the Edo period, which the Tokugawa shogunate ordered be created by every province.[1] They are sometimes contrasted with nihonzu (日本図), which were national maps created by the shogunate.[2]
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Work on the Shōhō Kuniezu (正保国絵図) was started in 1644 [1][permanent dead link]. The original copy was destroyed by fire in 1873 ja:正保国絵図.
Genroku Kuniezuedit
Work on the Genroku Kuniezu (元禄国絵図) began in 1696 (Genroku 9) and ended in 1702 (Genroku 15).[3] The cadastral survey and mapping project was started and finished in the Genroku era.[3] It was the fourth official map of Japan.[5]
The scale of the maps reduced "ri" (3927m) to 6 "sun" (18 cm) [about 1/21,600 scale]. Each map showed mountains, rivers, roads and other landmarks.[3] Road milestones and names of villages with recognized yields of rice were recorded. Castle towns were recorded with the names of local area and names of the lords of the castles.[3]
The maps served as a comprehensive record of the region's statistics with legends showing colours of the counties and colour coding the yield of rice achieved from each county. Some maps even featured gridlines and the number of villages in each county featured on the bottom of the maps.[6]
Some considered this set of maps as inferior to the previous ones which had been ordered. The Genroku maps were corrected in 1719 (Kyōhō 4).[5]
^Fassbender, Bardo et al. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, p. 483; John Brian Harley et al. (1987). The History of Cartography, p. 397 n211; excerpt, "The maps are reproduced in color in Ryūkyū kuniezu shiryōshū [琉球国絵図史料集] (Collected historical materials of provincial maps of Ryūkyū)..., 1992.
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