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Hippu zukai : gunshi no maki

Arisawa, Takesada, 1682-1739 · 1716 · [Nihon : Publisher not identified] · 6 pictures

A Japanese manuscript treatise on military method and castle engineering compiled by Arisawa Takesada in 1716, made for samurai students of fortification and troop deployment. Hand-drawn pages in ink with pale washes show fortress wall profiles in flat black silhouette, orange-block town plans beside a river and sea, loophole and parapet details, and a tiled corridor bridge, with vertical brush annotations and red circular headers usable as diagram vocabulary, muted palettes, and plan-view pattern.

Military art and science · War games -- Rules -- Early works to 1800 · War games -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800

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