Tag: Ino Tadataka

• How close did Ino get? Japan’s first measured map against a modern one

  

  A retired sake brewer measured Japan on foot. I laid 28 sheets of his 1821 map on today’s coast: a typical sheet’s coast sits a median 280 m from the modern line.

  Tristan Hotham

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  cartography, data visualisation, history, Hokkaido, Ino Tadataka, Japan, maps, surveying