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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
mafumi 馬踏み

Also bafumi, hirami 褶. The flat top of an earthen embankment *doi…

Architecture, Castles
magiri 間切

Lit. "section breaks." A technique used to build a castle wall. Separate sections of the castle wall *…

Architecture, Castles
maru-umadashi 丸馬出

A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出 consisting of…

Architecture, Castles
masugata 桝形 ✓

Also written 升形. Lit. "square measuring box." A square enclosed by an earthen embankment, stone wall, moat or gates used to…

Architecture, Castles
masugata koguchi 桝型虎口

A type of castle entrance *koguchi 虎口 protected by a square…

Architecture, Castles
mizu-no-te guruwa 水の手郭

Also mizuguruwa 水郭. A castle compound *kuruwa 郭 built to protect…

Architecture, Castles
mizubori 水堀

A water-filled moat. Dry or empty moats are called *karabori 空堀.

Architecture, Castles
mizuki 水城

Lit. "water fortification." A dike constructed in the low-lying land between two mountains and filled with water to create a…

Architecture, Castles
mogari 虎落

The bamboo stalks, with the branches and leaves attached, that are placed facing the enemy in the bottom of a dry moat.…

Architecture, Castles
monomiguruwa 物見郭

A watch tower compound built on high ground apart from the main castle compound, from where the movement of enemy forces can…

Architecture, Castles
mushabashiri 武者走

Lit. "warrior run." The wide section built inside a wall on the level top of an earthen embarkment *…

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