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The Ryūkoku and Honkōji copies contain Gwon Geun (權近)'s preface at the bottom. The preface is also recorded in his anthology named Yangchon Seonsaeng Munjip (陽村先生文集). According to Gwon, the map was based on the following four maps:
- the world map named Shengjiao Guangbei Tu (聲教廣被圖) by Li Zemin (李澤民)
- the historical map of China named Hunyi Jiangli Tu (混一疆理圖) by Qingjun (清浚)
- an unnamed map of Korea
- an unnamed map of Japan
In the fourth year of the Jianwen era (1402), Korean officials named Kim Sa-hyeong (金士衡) and Yi Mu (李茂), and later Yi Hoe (李薈), analyzed the two Chinese maps and combined these two maps into a single map. They though that Li Zemin's map did not properly depict the region east to the Liao River (southern Manchuria) and Korea, they added the enlarged Korea, and also appended a map of Japan.
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