2013/2/17,The Asahi reading column
It is an effort by the forerunner in the proper reverse.
The beginning of the modern map in Japan is so-called " Ino's map " of Ino Tadataka's " this Dainichi coastal yochi complete map ".
It was said to that this was evaluative when it extremely was the high Japanese map of the precision whereas that an island in the distant place to have used for the check and a high mountain were only drawn except the coastline and the main highway and that it didn't make up for the inland, too.
In other words, it is the one of " making the place not to have measured mom in the blank ".
The new government behind the Meiji restoration faced the fragility of the map which is the most basic information infrastructure in groping about the reform to overtake European and American various countries and began to wrestle with " the map making " as the state urgent business.
To make the correcter map, the excellent talent is essential.
Fukuda Han who did first the measure which looks for the position on the earth such as the latitude longitude correctly in Japan.
Ono tomogoro who played an active part to create measured-drawing " Ogasawara Shima total figure " in the Japanese territory which becomes with Ino Tadataka since then.
Sugiyama shouji who accomplished the work of the bace line measurement which is made the most severe in the Koetoi at the Hokkaidou northernmost tip.
It takes up the sculptured group of the technical expert who boils in the Meiji map making and is engaged, and it attaches and it tells many episodes and a data photograph.
Kawakami Togai who was taking on the guide of the technical expert in the army staff locality figure section which takes charge of the mapping.
There is a stave to have become the involvement of " the map bootlegging event " which the charge could be spent on, saying selling China under the Manchus map information later and to have committed suicide, too.
Because the map making became handled as the state secrets and much was burned up behind the end of the war, the author says that it wasn't therefore adopted as it after Taishou Shouwa.
To have been showing the power that the map is big by Japan, the shade from the Meiji restoration which plowed precipitately to the advanced in the world for 140 years will be needless to say.
Surely, there is an abundant result of the forerunners who repeated an effort by " while being under a restriction of the times and the society " in the reverse of the map to seem to be " to be proper about " being at present as the author stated in the afterword *of*.
The comment 楊 逸 The novel writer
Hara Shobo 2520 yen / Yamaoka Mituharu Born in 45
The previous Geographical Survey Institute Central district measure chief director
" It is possible to ask a map! " and so on
The translation is Akutagawa.