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Title

Shuzu goketsu-ki

Authors

• Yamagata, Daini, 1725-1767

Call number

Ms. Codex 1592
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4988694
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4988694

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Japanese

Origin

Date

between 1755 and 1799

Place

Japan

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.
   

Extent

65 leaves : bound to 273 x 193 mm

Collation

Paper, 65 double sheet folios.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Text pages written in up to 11 columns.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Castles--Japan
• Fortification--Japan

Genres

• Maps
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Manuscripts, Japanese--18th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

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