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*''Compiled: [[1806]], [[Dochu bugyo|Dôchû bugyô]]''
*''Japanese'': 五海道其外分間見取延絵図　''(Gokaidô sono hokan bunken mitori nobe zu)''

"Proportional Linear Maps of the Gokaidô," or ''Gokaidô sono hokan bunken mitori nobe zu'', was a set of maps of the ''[[Highways|Gokaidô]]'', the main five highways of the realm, in 91 volumes, compiled in [[1806]] by the office of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]'s ''[[dochu bugyo|dôchû bugyô]]'' (Magistrate of Road Affairs).

These maps were highly detailed and accurate in their depictions of both topography and infrastructure. Location/distance markers, inns, and the like, along with the structural design of bridges, 90-degree turns in the road, and the approaches to [[post-stations]] and [[jokamachi|castle towns]] were given particular attention.

At least three official copies of these maps were produced, one of which was kept at [[Edo castle]], and two of which were held by the Magistrate of Road Affairs.

==References==
*[[Constantine Vaporis]], "Linking the Realm: The Gokaidô Highway Network in Early Modern Japan," in Susan Alcock et al (eds.) ''Highways Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World'', Wiley-Blackwell (2012), 95.

[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]