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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
aiyokoya-no-sama 合横矢の狭間

Also aiyokoya 合横矢. Lit. loophole for opposing lateral arrows. A loophole constructed in a castle wall or rampart to…

Architecture, Castles
akijiro 明城

Also written 空城. An empty castle or fortress from which the lord and/or his defensive garrison have withdrawn, either…

Architecture, Castles
ausaka 合坂

Also read aisaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri 武者走, where…

Architecture, Castles
azuchi-umadashi 的山馬出

Also written 安土馬出. A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出,…

Architecture, Castles
chashi チャシ

Fort. An Ainu アイヌ term for a fortification surrounded by a stockade fence or palisade *…

Architecture, Castles
chikirinawa ちきり縄

Lit. cross-stitch layout. Also read chigirinawa. Also written 蟄亀利縄. A generic term for various types of castle…

Architecture, Castles
chirifusegi 塵防

An extremely low embankment *dote 土手, beside a castle moat *…

Architecture, Castles
chiriotoshi 塵落

Also termed fujōnagashi 不浄流. A garbage drop. An area for discarding garbage and human and animal excrement from…

Architecture, Castles
chiritori 塵取

A passageway in a castle, used to clean out the moat. An opening in the wall of the main compound of a castle *…

Architecture, Castles
chōjō 長城

Also termed chōrui 長塁, bōrui 防塁. A long defensive fortification consisting of a continuous, extended…

Architecture, Castles
chōsenshiki yamajiro 朝鮮式山城

Lit. Korean type mountain castle. A general term for castle structures in Japan that resemble those in ancient Korea.…

Architecture, Castles

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University