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201035314Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010. First Edition. Large thick octavo. Cloth boards hardcover; dustjacket; 876pp. Tight Near Fine copy with a few faint stains to text block edges. In unworn dustwrapper. Text clean tight and unmarked. Oxford University Press unknown books
7038Numerous fine brush-and-wash drawings in rich colors of about 149 castles their fortifications floor plans & approaches. 64; 50; 49; 62; 67 folding leaves. Ten parts in five vols. 8vo 277 x 200 mm. orig. patterned wrappers new stitching. Japan: on the final leaf of the final vol. in trans.: "9 April 1737 copied by Tadataka Sakai and Minamoto." The third Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu reigned 1623-51 the first born to the rule spent much of his reign centralizing power in Edo with the bakufu growing in importance as administrators and setters of policy. In 1645 the bakufu ordered all fiefdom lords who owned castles to make a shiro ezu a detailed account of the structure of each castle; a gocho which is akin to a census of their daimyo; and kuni ezu maps of each area. These reports were compiled again in 1697. This is an invaluable and beautiful record of that famous survey of all the major feudal castles of Japan. This work was never printed but was frequently copied. The volumes depict in rich color overhead views of about 149 feudal castles that existed in 1697 many still stand today along with several idealized castles. The preliminary text of the first volume provides a color guide to the drawings: red for stone walls; yellow for roads or empty areas; blue for filled moats rivers oceans etc.; purple for empty moats; black for watchtowers; green for ditches mounds fields and mountains; etc. Shrines stables and other buildings within the castle grounds are also labeled. Each castle is labeled with its name region and fiefdom and oftentimes dimensions. For each castle a brief history of is provided mentioning ownership when built and/or reconstructed affiliations with shoguns etc. Some of the most famous depicted include the castles of Nijo Hikone Osaka Kameyama Nagoya Inuyama Odawara Mito Kanazawa Himeji and many others. Curiously while Edo Castle is discussed and described there is no image of it. Could this be for security reasons A number of annotated slips of paper with slightly later additional information have been pasted in. In excellent condition. Unimportant worming. The final 11 leaves of the fifth volume have a small burn mark or hole touching the images. unknown books
