Osaka Castle

"Osaka Castle" presents the great stone-walled fortress whose current reconstruction, though not original, rises above its massive stone base with the same imposing profile that made Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original castle the most powerful fortification in sixteenth-century Japan. Osaka Castle's distinctive white plaster walls and green tiled roofs, rising above the broad stone moats, make it one of the most recognizable landmarks in Japan. Okuyama's sosaku-hanga rendering of this historical monument would have applied his direct observational approach to the castle's monumental but human-scaled architecture.