日本が建造した初の3万トン越えの超ド級戦艦が、扶桑型戦艦でした。大東亜戦争の敗色が濃厚となっていた昭和 19（1944）年10月、「扶桑」と「山城」は捷一号作戦でスリガオ海峡からレイテ湾に突入する任務を与えられました。しかしアメリカ艦隊の待ち伏せを受けた2隻は集中砲雷撃を被り、壮絶な最期を遂げました。
　「連理の塔」は、アンバランスに高い艦橋が特徴である「扶桑」、「山城」をテーマとした対の作品です。「宵の山城」は冴える月夜にまっすぐ戦地に向かう凛とした「山城」の姿を、そして、「旭日の扶桑」は空を朱に染める旭日を背に波濤を越える扶桑の姿を描いています。両者は、「陰と陽」「静と動」の対となっています。終焉を迎えることになる海へ、単縦陣で向かう2隻の姿を後続艦から眺めると、屹立する2つの高い艦橋が、絡み合う連理の枝のように見えたかもしれません。2隻は今でも同じ海域の底に共に眠っています。終戦70周年にあたる平成27（2015）年、両艦の艦内神社分霊元である石清水八幡宮に奉納しました。

The Fuso class was built in Japan as Super Dreadnought type battleships exceeding 30,000 tons. As defeat loomed over Japan in the Greater East Asian War (the Pacific War), the Fuso and Yamashiro participated in Operation Sho-Go 1, advancing on Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait. However, the American fleet waited in ambush, and both ships succumbed to gunnery and torpedo attacks.
Their high pagoda-like superstructures, which also look like intertwined trees, gave them the appearance of being unbalanced, and that is how they are portrayed in this work. The Yamashiro is shown advancing to battle in the light of the full moon, and the Fuso in the early morning light of the rising sun. These two works give an impression of “darkness and light”, “stillness and movement”. These two ships, steaming in line astern through the sea of death, with their towering superstructures, can be imagined to look like intertwined trees. Today, they rest on the sea bottom together. Seventy years after the war, in Heisei 27 (2015), these works were dedicated to Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine. This shrine had shared its patron deity with the shrines onboard the battleships Fuso and Yamashiro..

総頁数：156P　販売価格：4,400（税込*）*BOOTH価格は梱包・送料込
収録作品：79点（帝国海軍艦艇/海自艦艇/外国海軍艦艇）
仕様：見開きにズレが無く、ほぼ水平に開くク―タ・バインディング製本

Total number of pages: 156p
Price: 4,400(tax included*)*BOOTH price includes packing and shipping costs.
Included works: 79 pieces (IJN, JMSDF, US, British, French, German
and Italian Navy vessels)
Specifications: PUR binding with no misalignment of spreads and horizontal opening.