⚠Hand-drawn woodblock map with some stylized characters and small, partially blurred annotations.

Boundaries of the Western Provinces

Iki Province

Jurisdiction over 3 Districts original: 壹岐 (Iki). An island province located in the Tsushima Strait between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula.

Tsushima Province

Jurisdiction over 2 Districts An essential diplomatic and trade link between Japan and the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

Hizen Province

Jurisdiction over 11 Districts
This province extends from the areas below Nagasaki and Ogi original: 長崎 (Nagasaki) and 小城 (Ogi). Nagasaki was the primary port for foreign trade during the Edo period.
Eighty miles original: 白八十里. The character 'white' (白) is likely a transcription error for 'one hundred' (百) or 'from' (自) in the original woodblock.

Chikuzen Province

Jurisdiction over 15 Districts

Chikugo Province

Jurisdiction over 10 Districts

Buzen Province

Jurisdiction over 8 Districts

Bungo Province

Jurisdiction over 8 Districts

Higo Province

Jurisdiction over 14 Districts
Ten-mile Island original: 什里島. Likely a reference to one of the islands in the Amakusa archipelago.
Six miles of land
Eleven miles in total Distances are given in 'li,' a traditional unit of measurement; in this period's cartography, these numbers were often approximate or copied from older sources.

Satsuma Province

Jurisdiction over 13 Districts

Osumi Province

Jurisdiction over 12 Districts
Corrected to 19 districts original: 什九郡思正. This gloss indicates a correction to the administrative count within the province.

Hyūga Province

Jurisdiction over 5 Districts

Islands of the Hirado Domain

original: 平戸領島. Hirado was a significant trading post for the Portuguese, Dutch, and English in the early 17th century.

Arima Island

Kamishima

Literally "Upper Island," part of the Amakusa group.

Koshiki Island

The Seven Islands

original: 七島 (Shichi-to). Likely referring to the Tokara Islands stretching south of Kyushu.

Sulfur Mountain

original: 硫黄山 (Iō-yama). Referring to Iōjima, an island known for its active volcano and sulfur deposits, which were a valuable trade commodity.

Boundaries of the Ryukyu Kingdom

original: 球界 (Kyū-kai). An abbreviation for Ryūkyū (modern-day Okinawa), which was an independent kingdom at the time this map's source material was compiled, though it maintained a complex tributary relationship with both China and the Satsuma Domain of Japan.