日本地图，为谁绘制？

Sources consulted 16 September 2026. This essay compares selected Tokugawa-period mapmaking practices and their later reuse, not every Japanese cartographic tradition. Physical descriptions and dimensions follow the identified catalogues; no independent georeferencing, measurement, or paleographic examination of the maps is claimed.

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   National Archives of Japan, “天保国絵図 紀伊国,” historical description and dimensions. Gives the 1835 commission, 1838 completion, approximately 1:21,600 scale, and dimensions of 578 by 491 centimeters. Its descriptions of this mapping tradition are not imposed without qualification on every local preparation copy. https://www.archives.go.jp/owning/mini_img/3-5.html

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   National Diet Library, Research Navi, “伊能図,” updated 27 July 2023, opening description, 1821 set and scale list, and account of the 1873 loss. Read the reference entry, not every map or book listed beneath it. https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/rnavi/maps/post_601018

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   National Archives of Japan, “元禄国絵図,” introductory paragraph and entry “近江国（元禄）.” Supports the 1696 program, scale, village symbols and assessment fields, and the three-domain responsibility for Ōmi. Assessments are not described here as observed annual harvests. https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/DAS/pickup/view/category/categoryArchives/0300000000/0301000000/01

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   Shibata City Digital Archive, “越後国絵図に親しむ,” two introductory paragraphs and “『正保越後国絵図』を読み解く.” Supplies the requested transport information, northern Echigo assignments, information from Aizu, and the local Tenpō correction procedure. The later simplification described there concerns this local production history, not a claim that every completed Tenpō map omitted assessments. https://adeac.jp/histlib-shibata/top/spc/index.html

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   Nagoya University Library, “改正日本輿地路程全図,” record j993, in the Tōkai National Higher Education and Research System Academic Digital Archive, publication year and colophon transcription. See the catalogue's description of the 1779 Osaka printing. No inspection of the original colophon or full reconstruction of the map's edition history is claimed. https://da.adm.thers.ac.jp/item/n004-20230901-01438

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   Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History, Moriya collection, “新刻日本輿地路程全図,” Cultural Heritage Online record 609706. It explicitly distinguishes the printed map's coordinate lines from comprehensive ground surveying and describes its period of popularity. The essay does not identify it as the first commercially available Japanese map. https://online.bunka.go.jp/heritages/detail/609706

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   National Diet Library, Famous Places of Edo, “巣鴨絵図,” bibliographic description of the Owariya set, call number 本別9-30. The 1849–1862 range, twenty-eight sheets, and cited unfolded/folded dimensions describe this library set, not every issue of the series. Its map image was not used for independent visual analysis. https://www.ndl.go.jp/landmarks/edo/sugamo-ezu.html

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   Special Wards Association, “所蔵資料蔵出し『尾張屋板「江戸切絵図」』,” 8 April 2024, introduction, the 1850 Kojimachi–Nagatacho–Sotosakurada example, and “尾張屋板『江戸切絵図』の特徴.” See the institution's account of its holdings, color conventions, crests, publication history, and the publisher's other business. No particular traveler's purchase or journey is reconstructed. https://www.tokyo-23city.or.jp/chosa/shozoshiryo/shozoshiryo26.html

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   Center for Open Data in the Humanities, “江戸切絵図 尾張屋版,” introductory research explanation concerning differing orientations, scales, and greater peripheral distortion. The project's entire point dataset was not independently checked. Its explanation of fitting destinations within a sheet is attributed, not a newly demonstrated motive for every distortion. https://codh.rois.ac.jp/edo-maps/owariya/

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    Agency for Cultural Affairs, Nationally Designated Cultural Properties Database, “伊能忠敬測量図（実測輿地図）,” record 201/00012090, substantive description of the survey and the surviving small-map set. Used for distances, bearings, astronomical latitude, and the distinction between measurement and drawing. No numerical accuracy estimate or assertion of uniform coverage is made. https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/00012090

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    National Diet Library, “伊能図,” curated gallery on Japan Search, main historical description. Read for posthumous completion under Takahashi Kageyasu and official rather than commercial custody of the presentation set. The statement about restricted circulation is not extended to a claim that no authorized copies existed. https://jpsearch.go.jp/gallery/ndl-GJobEnDNJRIYqm

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    Hoshino Yoshihisa (星埜由尚), “表紙地図—伊能小図（東京国立博物館蔵）について—,” Journal of Geography 129, no. 2 (2020), cover explanation, DOI 10.5026/jgeography.129.Cover02_01. The substantive published abstract was read, including the 1822 academy deposit, ownership stamp, and needle-hole copying method. The full PDF and cover composition were not inspected and are not described. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgeography/129/2/129_129.Cover02_01/_article/-char/ja

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    Tokushima University institutional catalogue, “官板 実測日本地図 山陰・山陽・南海・西海,” reproduced in CiNii Research, CRID 2120307889875981440, DOI 10.15000/0002012995. See the catalogue's full descriptive text through CiNii; the university's direct repository page failed to load. It identifies the 1867 edition based on the Inō small maps and the 1870 reissue from the same blocks. No claim is made that the earlier survey acquired its original purpose from these later editions. https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/2120307889875981440

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