High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (?, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century. During the Nara period, the term zu (?) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (??, roughly "picture diagram”). As the term implies, ezu were not necessarily geographically accurate depictions of physical landscape, as is generally associated with maps in modern times, but pictorial images, often including spiritual landscape in addition to physical geography. Ezu often focused on the conveyance of relative information as opposed to adherence to visible contour. For example, an ezu of a temple may include surrounding scenery and clouds to give an impression of nature, human figures to give a sense of how the depicted space is used, and a scale in which more important buildings may appear bigger than less important ones, regardless of...

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