Old Map of Japanese Castles Ryota Mizukami
This book is an old Hand drawing sketch collection of Japanese castles. The original is not published in Japan, it will be this time of the beginning the public.The original, is by hand with a brush to the Japanese paper, in part, of the figure has been given a color by hand.It does not contain the date or the like which is created on this map.Probably ( around about 1850's ) the end of the Edo period, that is, presumed to have been created before for about 160 years. Criteria of age is due to the overall notation and the honorific title of writing , the state of the paper or the like . In particular, from the mid- fifteen century until the mid-19th century was the era of the samurai.Top of the samurai was called daimyo. They had castles in order to protect the territory. The castle had ...