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1785 Japanese gazetteer
Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu (三国通覧図説 , An Illustrated Description of Three Countries ) by
Hayashi Shihei (1738–1793) was published in Japan in 1786. This book represents one of the earliest attempts to define Japan in terms of its outer boundaries. It represented a modern effort to distinguish
Japan from the neighboring nations.
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The book describes those three surrounding nations: the
Joseon Dynasty (
Korea ), the
Ryukyu Kingdom (
Ryukyu Islands /
Okinawa ) and
Ezo (
Hokkaido ), as well as the yet uninhabited
Bonin Islands .
A copy of the Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu was brought to
Europe by
Isaac Titsingh . In
Paris , the text represented the first appearance of Korean
han'gŭl in Europe. After Titsingh's death, the printed original and Titsingh's translation were purchased by
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat at the
Collège de France , where—through a series of errors on Abel-Rémusat's part—it gave the
Bonin Islands their name. After Rémusat's death,
Julius Klaproth at the Institut Royal in Paris published his version of Titsingh's work. In 1832, the
Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland supported the posthumous abridged publication of Titsingh's French translation.
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ISBN
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OCLC
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OCLC
44014900 .
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San Kokf Tsou Ran To Sets, ou, Aperçu Général des Trois Royaumes (in French), Paris:
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OCLC
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Armonk : Sharpe,
ISBN
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OCLC
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ISBN
9780415310918 ,
OCLC
52347509 .
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Accidental Acquisitions: The Nineteenth-Century Korean Collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Part 1 (PDF) ,
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