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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
naijō 内城

The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *…

Architecture, Castles
nakajō 中城

Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.…

Architecture, Castles
nawabari 縄張 ✓

Castle plan; general term for the layout of a castle and its component structures. Lit. "stretched rope," the term is said…

Architecture, Castles
negoya 根小屋

The *jōkamachi 城下町, or town below the castle in the late medieval…

Architecture, Castles
nejiro 根城

Also read nejō. Lit. "root castle." The base of military operations. When several castles comprise a unit, …

Architecture, Castles
ni-no-maru 二の丸

Lit. "second circle." The second compound outside of, or immediately adjacent to the main compound *…

Architecture, Castles
nishi-no-maru 西の丸

A castle compound to the west of the main compound *honmaru 本丸. In a early-…

Architecture, Castles
noroshidai 烽火台

Also pronounced hōkadai. Also noroshidai 狼煙台 or noroshiba 狼煙場. A fire beacon; a stone platform on…

Architecture, Castles
nozurazumi 野面積 ✓

1 Also called *ishigaki 石垣; ishigaketsumi 石崖積; …

Architecture, Castles
nunozuki 布築

Lit. "cloth construction." Ashlar construction. Also termed nunozumi 布積 (cloth piling). A technique used in dry…

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