Article ID: CBB418886993

The Tenpō-Era (1830–1844) Map of Matsumae-no-shima and the Institutionalization of Tokugawa Cartography (2018)

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Japan’s early modern Tokugawa government (1603−1868) sponsored a series of projects of national mapping. The Matsumae family, ruling what is now Hokkaido, were loosely incorporated into these projects. It was only during the last of these, in the Tenpō era (1830−1848), that their lands were represented in the same manner as the rest of Japan because the central government made the final Matsumae-no-shima map. This article examines the production of this final official map of Japan’s north to argue that the Tokugawa’s institutional mapping made this region part of the nation through its own mapping framework, distinct from the cartographic forms with which national or imperial states are usually associated.

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Authors & Contributors
Arch, Jakobina
Robert, Jean-Noël
Terrence Jackson
Manu Karuka
Araujo, Renata
Robert Goree
Concepts
Science and politics
Cartography
Borderlands
Geography
Imperialism
Science and culture
Time Periods
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
19th century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Japan
China
Korea
Mato Grosso (Brazil)
Nagasaki (Japan)
Lithuania
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