| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| chashi チャシ | Fort. An Ainu アイヌ term for a fortification surrounded by a stockade fence or palisade *… |
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| 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… |
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| chirifusegi 塵防 | An extremely low embankment *dote 土手, beside a castle moat *… |
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| chiriotoshi 塵落 | Also termed fujōnagashi 不浄流. A garbage drop. An area for discarding garbage and human and animal excrement from… |
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| 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 *… |
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| chōjō 長城 | Also termed chōrui 長塁, bōrui 防塁. A long defensive fortification consisting of a continuous, extended… |
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| 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.… |
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| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
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| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
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| 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… |
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| nejiro 根城 | Also read nejō. Lit. "root castle." The base of military operations. When several castles comprise a unit, … |
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| ni-no-maru 二の丸 | Lit. "second circle." The second compound outside of, or immediately adjacent to the main compound *… |
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| nishi-no-maru 西の丸 | A castle compound to the west of the main compound *honmaru 本丸. In a early-… |
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| noroshidai 烽火台 | Also pronounced hōkadai. Also noroshidai 狼煙台 or noroshiba 狼煙場. A fire beacon; a stone platform on… |
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| nozurazumi 野面積 | ✓ | 1 Also called *ishigaki 石垣; ishigaketsumi 石崖積; … |
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| nunozuki 布築 | Lit. "cloth construction." Ashlar construction. Also termed nunozumi 布積 (cloth piling). A technique used in dry… |
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