Collection of the survey reports was proceeding with difficulty even in August 1876, but being urged by the determination to abolish Kyobusho the following January, the compilation work was brought to tentative fruition in December of the same year even with some incompleteness, which is this book.
明治9年8月になっても尚難航していたが、翌年1月には教部省が廃止されることになったため、遺漏を残しつつも同年12月に一応の完成を見たのが本書である。