MOTOORI Norinaga's Hashihara Castle Town Map: An Imaginary Edo-Period Ideal Town
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1970-01-01
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Summary
This article discusses the Hashihara Castle Town Map (Hashiharashi Joka Ezu), a map of a fictitious ideal town drawn by MOTOORI Norinaga, an Edo-period intellectual giant known for his study of classics. He created this map along with the Genealogical Table of the HASHIHARA Family at the age of nineteen. The map depicts an entire castle town surrounded by natural terrain, includes names from the genealogical table, and shows many shrines and temples in the surrounding mountains with rivers and other natural features.
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The Hashihara Castle Town Map (Hashiharashi Joka Ezu) is a map of a fictitious ideal town that he drew along with the Genealogical Table of the HASHIHARA Family (Hashiharashi Keizu) at the age of nineteen.
The map depicts the entirety of a castle town surrounded by natural terrain, and it contains the names of people in the genealogical table.
The map also shows many shrines and temples in the surrounding mountains, with rivers and b
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