The survey activities in whole Japan done by Tadataka Inou using the methods of Yoshitoki

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Jun 2005

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The Astronomical Herald (ISSN 0374-2466), Vol. 98, No. 6, p. 391 - 395 (2005)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History Of Astronomy

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In 2001, 207 sheets of copies of Japanese map were discovered in the Library of Congress of USA in Washington D.C. Those maps called "Daizu" were surveyed by Tadataka Inou who was a surveyor in Edo era. Last year, home coming exhibitions for those maps were held in all over Japan during one year. These highly accurate maps were surveyed by Tadataka Inou who entered into a private school of Yoshitoki Takahashi who was a governmental official regarding astronomy of the Edo shogunate using theory of astronomy and methods of surveying learned from Yoshitoki Inou completed these maps spending 3,727 days and traveling 39,000 km distance on foot.

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