Surveying in Seventeenth-Century Japan : Technology Transfer from the Netherlands to Japan(<Special Issue>Mixed Mathematics and Its Material Culture)

  • SATO Kenichi
    The University of Electro-Communications, Faculty of Informatics and Engineering

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This paper explores a new style of surveying, which first appeared in Japan in the seventeenth century, from the perspective of the technology exchanges that developed between Japan and the Netherlands. Seventheenth-century Japan witnessed a rise in social demand for surveying. As the Tokugawa shogunate demanded the daimyo lords to product the domain map, kuniezu, responsible workers with the knowledge and skills to survey the land found employment opportunities throughout Japan. This situation provided the immediate context for the rise in demand for surveying in seventeenth-century Japan. If one takes into account the situation of technology transfer that accompanied kuniezu compliation during the 1640s, the one will be forced to look again at the fact that a considerable proportion of technical expertise and knowledge came from the Netherlands. With regards to the theme of technology exchange between Japan and the Netherlands, the entries in the business records left by the VOC prove to be extremely valuable. They are valuable because they offer proof that top-ranking shogunate officials, INOUE Masashige, approached the Dutch directly and asked them to teach geometry to the Japanese. The author pointed out the similarity of some surveying instruments and techniques between Japan and Europe.

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  • CRID
    1573950402618677504
  • NII論文ID
    110009804038
  • NII書誌ID
    AA11081495
  • ISSN
    02854821
  • 本文言語コード
    en
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