Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu

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.

[1] This book represents one of the earliest attempts to define Japan in terms of its outer boundaries.

[4] A copy of the Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu was brought to Europe by Isaac Titsingh.

[4] 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.

[5] After Rémusat's death, Julius Klaproth at the Institut Royal in Paris published his version of Titsingh's work.