By far the greatest part of these sketches of Taiwan life from the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century was filled in by Professor Nakamura Takashi of Tenri University, who is one of Japan's leading scholars on the history of Taiwan, especially the period of the Dutch occupation.
搭起荷據台灣史的架構這些從十四到十六世紀中葉（明末清初）時期的台灣圖像，極大部分是由日本天理大學教授中村孝志所建立起來的。