Visual Index of Himeji Sites (Site name and description)
Himeji Castle Himeji Castle (1601-1609)
The grandest surviving castle in Japan.

Bibliography:

Most images copyright 2003 Timothy J. Olker

Certain images copyright 2003 Kerk L Phillips

Nishi, Kazuo and Kazuo Hozumi. What is Japanese Architecture?
  Kodansha International, 1983. Tokyo and New York

Last Name, First Name Subject
  Publisher, yyyy. Locale

Kinoshita, June & Nicholas Palevsky. Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide)
  Kodansha International, 1998. Tokyo

Turnbull, Stephen & Peter Dennis. Japanese Castles 1540-1640
  Osprey Publishing Company, 2003. New York

http://www2.memenet.or.jp/unesco/shirasagi/eng/engcastle.htm

http://www.himeji-castle.gr.jp/index/English/

http://www.sanynet.ne.jp/~gino/ezu.html