日本学者称清朝《皇舆全览图》不含钓岛

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BBC Chinese Sept 28, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp ... _territorial_claims
("《皇舆全览图》是1708年康熙皇帝授意朝中传教士绘制，1717年完成木制版图、1721年再版，期间还印行过铜版图，是中国历史上首次以经纬度绘制的地图。中国互动百科形容《皇舆全览图》'是中国自古以来最精最全之图' ")

Note: The first half of the BBC report is based on (1), whereas the second half, on (2) which is three months old (!) but attached to the bottom of (1) as Related News 関連ニュース. Both (1) and (2) are in the next posting of the same series. (and title)

choi

(1) 中国の尖閣領有権主張、また崩れる　１７世紀作製、初の近代的地図「皇輿全覧図」に記載なし. 産経新聞, Sept 28, 2015
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/150928/plt1509280003-n1.html
("「皇輿全覧図（こうよぜんらんず）」と題する中国全土の地図で、１６９９年に清朝・康煕帝がイエズス会の宣教師に作製させた。中国全土で大規模な測量を行い、製作し、１７１７年に完成した。その後、初めての近代的地図として、中国全土の地図を作製する際の基準として利用されるようになった。この地図には１６８３年に福建省に編入した台湾、澎湖諸島は描かれているが、尖閣諸島は含まれていない")

translation: The map of the entire nation of China titled 皇輿全覧図 was commissioned in 1699 by Kangxi Emperor of Qing dynasty. A large scale of surveys of the entire nations was done, map made and completed in 1717. Afterwards, the maps of the entire nation of China used this map as gold standard.  In this map, Taiwan and 澎湖諸島 was depicted which were incorporated into Fujian province in 1683, but not the Senkaku islands.

My comment:
(a) My only question is 皇輿全覧図 is well known. What takes it so long for people to find out that the Senkakus did not show up in that map?  A minor question is the map show Korean peninsula, too which OBVIOUSLY was not Qing’s territory.
(b) Japanese English dictionary
i-e-zu-su イエズス (proper name): “Jesuit”  (Japanese pronunciation does not have “ye” -- it does have ya, yu and yo -- so it becomes “i” and “e.”
sen-kyō-shi 宣教師 【せんきょうし】 (n): “missionary”
(c) The report says 拓殖大学の下條正男教授 made the discovery.

professor Masa-o SHIMO-JŌ of Takushoku University [a private university based in Tokyo, founded in 1900 to develop talents to colonize Taiwan]


(2)  「尖閣日本領」欧州の地図　日清戦争より前、中国主張を否定する資料. 産経新聞, Sept 28, 2015, June 24, 2015.
www.sankei.com/west/news/150624/wst1506240018-n1.html