| TOKUGAWA Mitsukuni, head of the Mito Tokugawa family, one of the three branches of the Tokugawa clan, started to compile it during the Edo period as an enterprise of the Mito Domain and it was completed during the Meiji period. |
江戸時代に御三家のひとつである水戸徳川家当主徳川光圀によって開始され、光圀死後にも水戸藩の事業として継続、明治時代に完成した。 |