Pictures and credits
There are no photographs on this site.
Every picture here (the castle keep, the three kinds of castle site, the way in from above, the tiger-fish roof ornament, the keep above a moat, the white keep with a heron, the logo, the favicon and the share image) is our own original, simplified drawing. They are not reconstructions or scale plans, and they are not traced or copied from any plan, map, print, guidebook, museum image or photograph. Only the labelled parts come from the sourced facts in each caption.
Charts and tables are our own layouts of figures quoted from the sources listed. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.
Not affiliated with UNESCO, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), the Japan Tourism Agency, Himeji Castle, Matsumoto Castle, Kumamoto Castle, the Osaka Castle Museum, Nagoya Castle, Matsumoto City, Kumamoto City, Nagoya City, Osaka City, the Japanese government, the UK government or any museum. Their names, and the names of the places they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources discussed. All pictures are our own simplified drawings: not reconstructions, not scale plans, and not copied from any site plan, map, guidebook or photograph.