wall-writings

Updated: May 12, 2025

In the case, however, of damage which exceeds the farmers' capacity to repair, the facts should be reported to the taiko who will grant necessary assistance. There follow various sumptuary regulations. We have next a series of interesting instructions known as "wall-writings" of the castle of Osaka: Intermarriages between daimyo's families require the previous consent of the Taiko.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era