"Shiba Kokan's world map, published in 1792 in two hand-drawn sheets, shows in the surrounding diagrams the Copernicus figures of earth, sun and moon, which his accompanying book explained with more diagrams. Australia is present with an approximation of shape quite unknown to ; Brazil again stretches eastward in deformity; Japan is at the far east of a sheet, but this is a modern map.
Shiba Kokan's 1792 world map, illustrated on two hand-drawn sheets, illustrates the Copernicus models of earth, sun, and moon through accompanying diagrams. Australia appears as an approximate shape previously unknown; Brazil extends eastward in distorted form; Japan is situated at the far eastern edge of a sheet.