a general survey of japan (only the table of contents survives ) 日本総論 - 目次のみ現存
later , japan would confirm its territorial right to the islands among the powerful countries of the world--the basis of the approval lay in the " sangoku tsuran zusetsu " (illustrated general survey of three countries ), written by shihei hayashi after japan forced the residents of hachijo-jima island to immigrate to the ogasawara islands . 後に日本は林子平著『三国通覧図説』の記述を根拠として領有を主張し、八丈島住民などを積極的に移住させることで、列強から領有権を承認されることになる。
the people in that country are all bigger and stronger than japanese and chinese , and a korean usually eats twice as much food as a japanese; but they are slow and do not work hard , so that they were defeated twice by hideyoshi toyotomi ( ' sangoku tsuran zusetsu ' [an illustrated general survey of three countries ], woodblock print , page 6 ) 其国ノ人物ハ都テ日本唐山等ノ人ヨリ壮大ニシテ筋骨モ強シ食量モ大概日本ノ二人ノ食ヲ朝鮮ノ一人ニ充ベシ然レドモ其心機アクマデ遅鈍ニシテ不働也此故ニ太閤ノ征伐ニヨク負タリ (『三国通覧図説』版本 6丁)
