新鐫大日本海陸全図：附朝鮮 琉球 / New map of all land and sea in Japan with inserts added for Chōsen and Ryūkyū

The title is Shinsen Dainihon kairiku zenzu tsuketari Chōsen zenzu zen. Edited and written by Mori Kinseki and Ogawa Shinsuke. Issued by Yamanaka Ichibē and Nagano Kameshichi. On the colophon, there is a note:" Permission to publish granted on March 23rd, 1877,” and it was published in August in the same year. Recent research shows that the reason the publication was delayed is that the authors needed to make corrections to the distance measurements. When the prefecture system replaced the feudal domains in 1871, 3 Fu (special prefectures) and 72 Ken (ordinary prefectures) were established in Japan.. However, maps of old provinces and districts such as found in this document continued to be issued up to around 1878. This map was issued after the Meiji restoration. It contains "Chishima shotō no zu", "Hokkaidō no zu", "Chōsen koku zenzu", "Nihon koku zenzu", " Ryukyu shotō zenzu" and the others. Its contents show us how intellectuals of the time viewed Japan’s territory. Mori Kinseki (1843-1921) the author and editor of this book, was a Nangaka (Nanga: Chinese painting which became popular in Japan during the Edo period) who was active in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Also he was a famous copperplate engraving artist working under the pen name Kyōsendō (Kinseki's pen name). Nagano Kameshichi was a book seller in Nihombashi from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate through the Meiji period.
(Updated on November 4, 2022)