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Creating Ezo

其他書名	The Role of Politics and Trade in the Mapping of Japan's Northern Frontier
出版	Ohio State University, 2009
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_qX-jwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Abstract: This thesis explores the various factors leading to the adaptation of western style scientific cartography by Japanese mapmakers in the employ of the Tokugawa government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It situates Japan not as a passive recipient of European cartographic techniques, but rather an active producer of geographic information in an exchange that began in the late 16th century. It focuses on the conflict over Ezo (modern day Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril islands) between Russia and Japan as a catalyst for the Tokugawa Shogunate's early 19th century mapping programs.