Sakakibara Kōzan (1734 - 8 January 1798) was a

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

, a Confucian scholar and author in the middle of the Japanese

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

. 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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakakibara Kozan Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 19th-century deaths 18th-century Japanese writers