Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1917 — The Geography of Japan. [ARTICLE]

The Geography of Japan.

Until Ino Chukei finished his labor Of love in 1821 nothing like an authentic map of Japan existed. His career was remarkable, for it was not until he had reached the age of fifty--11 ve years—having heen a sake brewer from boyhood—that he turned his attention to surveying. His maps were found to be so good and so free from errors that they were adopted as the. basis of the trigonometrical survey of Japan. During his work he surveyed 137,000 square miles, using instruments which he made himself; but he met with no reward during his life, for on the termination of his undertaking he was thrown into prison by the Shoguns, and he remained there ‘until he died. He has since been honored by a monument, erected to his memory in Tokyo.