Hippu zukai : gunshi no maki
Hippu zukai is a Japanese military treatise on war games by Arisawa Takesada, published in 1716 in Japan for students of tactics and strategy. Its pictures are hand-coloured block-printed diagrams of fortresses, castle walls, moats and bridges drawn in a bird's-eye oblique view, with Japanese labels in red and black; a designer might borrow the flat layered perspective, the stone wall textures and the washed green and blue palette.
