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Home / Arts / Architecture / History / Building Types / Fortifications / Castles / Japan
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- Castles of Japan - Takashi Toyooka offers a location map, brief description, thumbnail photographs and any relevant links for each castle. Select via an interactive map or an index. Bibliography.
www.geocities.com/castlejapan
- Castles of Japan: A Western Perspective - Aryn Lickey provides a computer aided montage of how Yonago Castle might have appeared, with a map of its location.
www.castlejapan.com
- Guide to Japanese Castles - Eric Obershaw provides a general history and description of castles in Japan, and photographs of castles he has visited, with histories taken from the official brochures and display text.
www.obershawonline.com/castle
- Himeji Castle - Detailed, illustrated history and description of this fine early 17th century castle and discussion of the technical orginality of its construction by a Japanese engineering company.
www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a5_himeji
- Japanese Castles - A few photographs by Jamie Marconi of the more famous castles in Japan.
www.hungry.com/~jamie/castle.html
- Nijo Castle - Kyoto castle built by the first Tokugawa shogun.
www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/kyoto/frames/aut_nijo.htm
- Shiro: A Japanese Castle - Stephen Wyley discusses the development and aspects of Japanese castles. Drawings by Steven Lowe.
www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/shiro.html
- Tenshu - Steve Haynie describes the central feature of a Japanese castle. Pictures and short histories of tenshus and other significant castle structures.
members.fcac.org/~grnacres/tenshu.html
- Virtual Tour Himeji Castle - History, map, tour and gallery of photographs of this magnificent timber castle on a stone base, built in 1601 by Terumasa Ikeda - a World Heritage site. By Hakurotowa No Kai.
www.himeji-castle.gr.jp
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