Illustrated topographies of famous places within a defined geographical region, published from the mid-to-late Edo period. Meisho-zue included information on the history of shrines and temples as well as on the special products of an area. Meisho-zue developed from *meishoki 名所記, but included more numerous and more detailed pictures. Popular illustrated handbooks of famous places produced in the early Edo period are now called kohan-chishi 古版地誌 (old editions of topography). The first example, Miyako meisho-zue 都名所図会 (Illustrated Topography of the Capital), edited by haiku 俳句 poet Akizato Ritō 秋里籬島 and illustrated by Takehara Shunchōsai 竹原春朝斎 (fl. 1772-1801), was published by Yoshinoya Tamehachi 吉野屋為八 in Kyoto in 1780. Meisho-zue eventually came to focus more on illustrations than text and included drawings using the bird's-eye viewpoint *chōkan zuhō 鳥瞰図法. The text had many connections to poetry, and for that reason was well-received by the public. Yoshinoya, with the same writer and artist mentioned above, published the supplements, Shūi miyako meisho-zue 拾遺都名所図会 and Miyako rinsen meisho-zue 都林泉名勝図会. After the great success of these publications, many books with the name zue 図会 were produced. These included: Tōkaidō meisho-zue 東海道名所図会 (Illustrating the Tōkaidō Highway between Kyoto and Edo), the Kisoji meisho-zue 木曾路名所図会 (Illustrating the Kiso Highway in Modern Nagano Prefecture), the Ise sangū meisho-zue 伊勢参宮名所図会 (Illustrating Ise Shrine), the Konpira sankei meisho-zue 金毘羅参詣名所図会 (Illustrating Konpira Shrine), as well as the Tōdo meisho-zue 唐土名所図会 (Illustrating Famous Locations in China). There were even works in this genre which were not topographies, such as the Sankai meisan-zue 山海名産図会 (Picture Book of Speciality Products). Meisho-zue continued to be published in the Kyoto and Osaka area until the Bunsei 文政 era (1804-30), and extended beyond the area in popularity. The first meisho-zue in Edo was the seven-volume Edo meisho-zue 江戸名所図会, published between 1833-36. It was compiled by three generations of the Saitō 斎藤 family, from Chōshū 長秋 to his grandson Gesshin 月岑 (1804-78). Hasegawa Settan 長谷川雪旦 (1778-1843) created the illustrations. The meisho-zue of Edo were mostly done by wood-block print *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists, and they greatly influenced the production of scenic view prints fūkei hanga 風景版画, especially by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (1797-1858) and Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849).