Bibliographical Notes of the Maps of Edo

Abstract

Among the documents belonging to the National Archives of Japan, this paper introduces bibliographic information and content as annotations about the maps of Edo with a focus on manuscripts that have originated from a document in the Cabinet Library. The "Maps of Edo"refers to the illustration of Edo and the city's environs. There are many maps of Edo around the country when counting both manuscripts and published books; our facility owns many of these maps. Published maps of Edo in particular list details because of prior research. On the other hand, manuscripted maps of Edo have a mix of unique documents, copies of printed books, and copied material that have been distributed throughout the country as manuscripts. Although we own many of those manuscripts of the map of Edo, the whole collection has not been cleared. This is why this paper focuses on and lists a notes of manuscripts of the map of Edo (including copies of published books); this list excludes summaries of published books that have cleared.