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At his first attempt, Nagakubo Sekisui planned a map of China called the "Daishin Koyozu" or Enlarged Map of China under the Ch'ing Dynasty. Published in 1785, this is a large-sized map (186×189cm), which, it is considered, was first composed according to the map of China in the "T'ien Ching Huo Wên" (Japanese reprint, 1730), revised and re-arranged further by referring to various maps of China both in the "Kuang Yü T'u" or Enlarged Terrestrial Atlas, and in the "Ta Ch'ing I T'ung Chih" (1744), to which were then added entries of historical events, old and new, on the authority of the "Rekidai Jiseki Zu" or Historical Map of China under Each Successive Dynasty (Japanese reprint, 1750).As Sekisui was highly mindful of mathematical matters concerning geography, he could represent in this map the topographical features of China far more accurately than had been done in any other map of the same kind published before. In his case, however historical matters were of even more adsorbing interest, and as a serial to his first attempt, therefore, he brought out in 1790 an atlas of China called the "Todo Rekidai Shugun Enkaku Chizu" or Historical Atlas of Chinese Provinces and Districts under Each Successive Dynasty, " with a view to providing the public with better and more detaited illustrations of place-names under each successive dynasty. This atlas consisted of thirteen leaves in all, twelve of them representing China and the remaining one East Asia. So far as topography is concerned, the former are merely simplified maps based on the previously published "Daishin Koyozu." For information relative to historical records, the "Li Tai Ti Li Chih Chang T'u" was chiefly referred to. The unique characteristic of this historic atlas may be said to be that, unlike any of the same kind published before, land features were represented, with princedoms colored distinctively.All of Sekisui's maps of China went through several impressions till nearly the middle of the 19th century, and besides, they were often reproduced in other publications, or copied and published with no alterations at all in some cases. They, therefore, played a very important part in cultivating the geographical knowledge of China among the Japanese people in the latter part of the Edo period.
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