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Bijuaru Sengoku 1000-nin by Tetsuo Owada

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Bijuaru Sengoku 1000-nin by Tetsuo OwadaTitle: Bijuaru Sengoku 1000-nin : Ōnin no Ran kara Ōsakajō Enjō made ransei no dorama o yomu
Author: Tetsuo Owada
Publisher: Sekai Bunkasha, 2009
ISBN: 978-4-418-09201-7 C1021
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 351 pages, 26 cm by 18.5 cm, softcover
Topics: History, Katchū, Paintings
ID: B0423

Book about 1000 historical figures from the Sengoku period. Illustrated, when possible, with remains of castles, paintings of the person and here and there an armor.

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Nihon no shiro by Yasushiro Nishigaya, Gentarō Kagawa

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Nihon no shiro by Yasushiro Nishigaya, Gentarō KagawaTitle: Nihon no shiro : tōshi ando danmen irasuto gensen sareta nihon no meijō o kurosu sekushon de irasuto saigen tettei kaibō
Author: Yasushiro Nishigaya, Gentarō Kagawa
Publisher: Sekai Bunkasha, 2009
ISBN: 978-4-418-09218-5
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color pictures and drawings, black and white pictures
Other: 415 pages, 27.5 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Samurai
ID: B0419

Great book about Japanese castles. Especially the many color drawings are very interesting.