Some Considerations on the Described Contents of shoho shiro ezu (the maps of castle and castle town compiled by the order of the tokugawa shogunate, 644) of Momijiyama Kicho Shomoku (possession of national officialdocument library)

摘要

This paper, deals with Momijiyama Kicho Shomoku (described contents in the clause of compile, the number and the date of shoho shiro ezu. This Momijiyama Kicho Shomoku is the new historical material in the study of shoho shiro ezu. As the result of this considerations, the important points areas follows: (1) The clause of compile of Shiro Ezu（castle map）can see, in the period of time of beginning, on the compile of the kuni-ezu (provincial maps of Japanese) of the Genroku time (1697). (2)The total of shoho shiro ezu supposed, as a new light , as the 157 numbers.