Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor looks at a copy of Japan's first maps based on an actual coastal survey by Ino Tadataka, a geographical surveyor in the Edo period, on display at an exhibition that began July 3. The event at the Tokyo Big Sight showcases copies discovered in 2001 in the United States of 207 of Ino's maps, which were drawn some 200 years ago.

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