Shuzu goketsu-ki.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Yamagata, Daini, 1725-1767.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Castles--Japan.

Castles.

Japan.

Fortification--Japan.

Fortification.

Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.

History.

Genre:

maps (documents)

pen and wash drawings

Manuscripts, Japanese.

Manuscripts, Digital.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by F. A. Bernett Books (Boston, Mass.), 2011.

Physical Description:

65 leaves : paper ; bound to 273 x 193 mm

Place of Publication:

[Japan], [between 1755 and 1799]

Language Note:

Japanese.

Biography/History:

Confucian scholar who started working for the Bakufu bureaucracy in ca. 1755, was known for his critique of the Tokugawa political system, and was executed for involvement in an anti-government plot.

Summary:

Maps of and text on feudal castles in the current Kansai, Chubu, Kanto, and Chugoku regions in central Japan, representing about a third of Yamagata's complete compendium of feudal castles in eastern, central, and western Honshu.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from pastedown on upper cover.

Collation: Paper, 65 double sheet folios.

Layout: Text pages written in up to 11 columns.

Decoration: 54 castle plans in colored inks and wash, showing details such as buildings, grounds, walls, and gates; circles, triangles, and some characters in red ink in text.

Binding: Fukuro-toji (stitched), with simple geometric stamp used repeatedly on the paper covers and a pastedown of gold with characters in black ink on the upper cover.

Origin: Written in Japan in the second half of the 18th century.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1592

OCLC:

729615938