Sakakibara Kozan

Sakakibara Kōzan (1734 - 8 January 1798) was a samurai, a Confucian scholar and author in the middle of the Japanese Edo period.

Kozan studied the construction techniques of Japanese armour from previous eras and provided a thorough report on constructing steel plate armour and its lamination with iron plate in his work, "The Fabrication of Armor and Helmets in Sixteenth-Century Japan."

Bibliography

The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan (Chūkokatchū Seisakuben) (1800) by Sakakibara Kōzan^[1]^[2]

References

^ Lensen, George Alexander (Nov 1, 1964). "Review of The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan (Chukokatchu Seisakuben)". Journal of Asian Studies. 24 (1). Ann Arbor, Mich., etc.: University of Michigan Press: 166. doi:10.2307/2050451. JSTOR 2050451.
^ Cammann, Schuyler (1965). "Review of The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 85 (2): 222–224. doi:10.2307/598000. JSTOR 598000. Retrieved 28 March 2023.

[1] Lensen, George Alexander (Nov 1, 1964). "Review of The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan (Chukokatchu Seisakuben)". Journal of Asian Studies. 24 (1). Ann Arbor, Mich., etc.: University of Michigan Press: 166. doi:10.2307/2050451. JSTOR 2050451.

[2] Cammann, Schuyler (1965). "Review of The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 85 (2): 222–224. doi:10.2307/598000. JSTOR 598000. Retrieved 28 March 2023.