The Considerations on the Numbered Vermilion Color of the 'Shoho Shiro Ezu' (the Maps of Castle and Castle Tawn Compiled by the Order of the Tokugawa Shogunate, 1644)

摘要

The compilation of the "Shoho Shiro Ezu" which is presented against Tokugawa Shogunate ended Meireki ages(1656). In the presented after, this "Shoho Shiro Ezu" are numbered the Japanese numeral of vermilion color on the front map. In the present state, the "Shoho Shiro Ezu" scattered more than half the numbers from the "Momijiyama bunko" (the Tokugawa Shougunate library, in the Edo castle). In this paper, the author described, from the side of the numbered vermilion color, about characteristics of the "Shoho Shiro Ezu".