Toryu2020 Posted June 9, 2015 Report Posted June 9, 2015 Folks - Here is a question for you - attached is an image from an early Showa oil on silk kakejiku, a recent find. The question being is this Inuyama? Iwakuni? or some other castle. Any thoughts entertained, thank you -t Quote
Baka Gaijin Posted June 9, 2015 Report Posted June 9, 2015 Hi Thomas., http://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/27466g1 1 Quote
Curran Posted June 9, 2015 Report Posted June 9, 2015 I have distant family at Inuyama, who I failed to visit last October. Only thing I didn't get to do on that trip. I can certainly see why you would think Inuyama. I looked at it for a while, and don't think it is Inuyama. However, not sure. Old photos evidence some add on to its modern form and old maps might situate the structures to the right as previously existing at Inuyama? http://ml.inuyama.gr.jp/en/history-en Quote
kaigunair Posted June 9, 2015 Report Posted June 9, 2015 The image on the left looks like the keep in Matsuyama: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Matsuyama_Castle_Tower%28Iyo%29_JAPAN.JPG Quote
Toryu2020 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Posted June 10, 2015 Thanks Gentlemen - Malx - in all the images we see of Inuyama the donjon is at the peak of the hill and none of the maps I have seen suggest major stuctures above and behind it as Campbell suggests. Junichi - maybe but it lacks the long walls and the robust donjon of Matsuyama, even if its artistic license I think a painter would want to include those distinctive walls. While the second story appears to have a karahafu on the second story in the picture, so do both Matsuyama and Inuyama. Inuyama is tall and thin looking while Matsuyama blockier. I dont know the answer either, I am leaning toward Inuyama but I am hoping for a definitive image from somewhere to settle it. -t Quote
BIG Posted June 10, 2015 Report Posted June 10, 2015 Hi, may be Iwakuni... http://www.google.de/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://cdn.images.guides.data.mobilytrip.com/wp_images/wall/e71be630d8347a87b951f1d6fa5b0572e33bf73c_IwakuniCastle.jpg&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ8wdqFQoTCP-A2d3vhcYCFcWVLAodpVwGkQ&usg=AFQjCNERO2xddPX1S7ronEXYkH77zho8PA Best Regards Quote
kaigunair Posted June 11, 2015 Report Posted June 11, 2015 Probably more trees in the area the further back you go. Regarding the walls, perhaps they were left out intentionally, as the castle doesn't appear to be the focus of the full image. would fit the kano school style of landscape painting....? http://www.seejapan.co.uk/Libraries/Images/Matsuyama_castle_in_Japan.sflb.ashx Quote
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