Japanese feudal villages in the Shogunate had the duty to submit each village map and yearly statistics including housholds, population, livestocks, field area with its harvests and fertility, and irrigation system to the local administrators. Especially with respect to the village map a new administrator, in spite of yearly submission ordered to submit a revised map.
The writer shows in this paper an example of the village map in the abolition of the feudal clans in 1869. The autholities Shinagawa Prefecture, Tokyo Metropolitan Area in the present, ordered to submit each village map according to the abolition of the feudal system. However, each village was obliged to submit an old map because of the sudden order. Therefore, The prefectural authorities orderd again to revise them four times in 1869. An example of the last edition, a map of Kyodo-Zaike village, shows the village statistics in the blank space of map. This is a special type of the sudmition. The other examples of the prefecture show almost the same pattern and they are rare examples of the reports of village status in the abolition period.
