Azuchi Castle: Architectural Innovation and Political Legitimacy in Sixteenth-Century Japan
This study seeks to clarify the limits of knowledge regarding Azuchi Castle (Azuchi-jō) and, in turn, offers a multifaceted interpretation of its crowning glory―the six-story, lavishly decorated, timber-framed tower known as a tenshu (donjon). Azuchi Castle was located on a small mountain on the eas...
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Harvard University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493525 |