Sakakibara Kozan Explained

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]}

Notes and References

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