Sources on Aizu History

General

Berry, Mary Elizabeth, Hideyoshi, Cambridge and London: Harvard, 1989

Fukushima Ken no Chimei, Vol. 7 of Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1993

Kiley, Cornelius J., "Estate and Property in the Late Heian Period", in John W. Hall and Jeffrey P. Mass, Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History, New Haven and London: Yale, 1974

Mass, Jeffrey P., "Jitō Land Possession in the Thirteenth Century: The Case of Shitaji Chūbun", in John W. Hall and Jeffrey P. Mass, Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History, New Haven and London: Yale, 1974

Sato, Elizabeth, "The Early Development of the Shōen", in John W. Hall and Jeffrey P. Mass, Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History, New Haven and London: Yale, 1974

Shinpen Aizu Fūdoki, Dai Nihon Chishi Taikei Vols. 25-29, Tokyo: Yūzankaku, 1962

Tsunoda, Ryusaku, William Theodore De Bary, and Donald Keene, Sources of Japanese Tradition, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958

Oyakuen, the garden of the lords of Aizu in the Tokugawa period.

Enichiji

Aizu Buke Yashiki Bunkazai Kanrishitsu, Wakariyasui Aizu no Rekishi, Aizu-Wakamatsu, 1989

Akira Seichi, "Bandaisan Enichi Kō", in Bandai Machi Kyōiku Iinkai, Tokuichi to Enichiji, Bandai Machi, 1973

Anazawa Wakō and Manome Jun'ichi, Nihon no Kodai Iseki 45 (Fukushima), Osaka and Tokyo: Hōyūsha, 1991

Bandai Machi Kyōiku Iinkai, Bandai Machi Shi, Bandai Machi, 1985

Bandai Machi Kyōiku Iinkai, Shiseki Enichiji Seki IX, 1994

Bandai San Enichiji Shiryōkan, Enichiji o Horu--Shiseki Enichiji Hakkutsu Chōsaten--, 1993

Brown, S. Azby, The Genius of Japanese Carpentry, Tokyo, New York and London: Kodansha, 1989

Fukushima Ken, Fukushima Ken Shi Vols. 1 (Tsūshi Hen 1: Kodai, Chūsei) and 7 (Shiryō Hen 2: Kodai, Chūsei Shiryō), Tokyo: Nozomigawa Shoten, 1965

Hashimoto Takeshi, "Bandai San Shinkō", in Gakkō Yoshihiro, Tōhoku Reizan to Shugendō, Tokyo: Meichō Shuppansha, 1977

Kawahigashi Hensan Kyōiku Iinkai, Kawahigashi Shi, Vol. 1, Kawahigashi Kyōiku Iinkai, 1979-80

McCullough, Helen Craig, tsl., The Tale of the Heike, Stanford University Press, 1988

Yūgawa Mura Kyōiki Iinkai, Yūgawa Mura Shi Vol. 3 (Tsūshi: Genshi, Kodai, Chūsei, Kinsei), Yūgawa Mura, 1994

Another view of Oyakuen

Sazaedō

Kobayashi Bunji, "Sansō-dō of Rakan-ji Buddhist Temple in Edo," Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai Ronbun Hōkokushū 130, December 1966

Kobayashi Bunji, "Aizu Sazaedō no Genryū--Barokku to Edo Kenchiku," Asahi Shinbun, Nov. 20, 1972

Screech, Timon, "The Strangest Place in Edo: The Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats," Monumenta Nipponica 48:4, Winter 1993

Yamagishi Seiji, "Iimoriyama Sazaedō ni Tsuite," Aizu Shidan

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