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Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").
They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or strategic sites, such as ports, river crossings, or crossroads, and almost always incorporated the landscape into their defenses.
It is the oldest example of nagare-zukuri style of shrine architecture in Japan, where the three inner shrine structures are built side-by-side, with the structure in the middle being larger than those to the left and right. Kōzan-ji (高山寺) Buddhist temple 13th century - Kamakura period
16th century in Japan (19 C, 11 P) 17th century in Japan (20 C, 11 P) ... Architecture in Japan by century (3 C) C. Centuries in Japan by city (8 C)
16th-century Japanese people (7 C, 83 P) S. Sengoku period (9 C, 39 P) Y. Years of the 16th century in Japan (67 C, 2 P) Pages in category "16th century in Japan"
Japanese architecture ... Since the 19th century, however, Japan has incorporated much of Western, ... 528 pages, 207 maps et 210 ill.
During the last half of the 16th century, a number of daimyōs became strong enough either to manipulate the Ashikaga shogunate to their own advantage or to overthrow it altogether. One attempt to overthrow the bakufu (the Japanese term for the shogunate) was made in 1560 by Imagawa Yoshimoto , whose march towards the capital came to an ...
Japan in the late 16th century The three unifiers of Japan: from left to right: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu In and around the Kinai , the most politically important region in Japan, Oda Nobunaga allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu to increase his power.