Japan Castles Coloring Book

About this book

Color the castles of Japan — all sixty of them real, and none of them in our other books.

This is the detailed castle book for adults: the black keep of Maruoka, the oldest surviving tower in Japan; Kokura's defiant keep, whose top floor is wider than the floor below; the star-shaped moats of Goryokaku seen from the sky; Imabari's white tiers rising straight from the sea; Oka Castle's endless stone walls, the ruins that inspired the song "Moon over the Ruined Castle"; and fifty-four more — surviving keeps, faithful wooden reconstructions, gates, turrets and great stone-walled ruins, from Hokkaido to Kyushu.

Every castle appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color photo guide with a short story — including what to look for while you color, from stonework to roof tiles — and on the other, a detailed coloring page of the very same view. A guide at the front shows you how to print only the coloring pages at home and save your color ink.

Inside you will find: • The survivors — Maruoka, Iga Ueno and the turrets of Ueda and Shibata • Great reconstructions in wood — Shirakawa Komine, Kakegawa, Ozu and Matsushiro • Sea castles and water castles — Imabari, Karatsu, Nakatsu and Takashima • Castles in the sky and ruined giants — Echizen Ono, Oka, Tsuyama and Tottori • 60 full-color photo guides with the story of each castle (91–107 words each) • None of these sixty castles appeared in our previous Japan coloring books — and this detailed adult edition is a separate book from our Castles coloring book for kids, with different castles and photographic line art

Sixty castles, one journey through the age of the samurai.