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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 *…

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
uchi-umadashi 内馬出

Lit. "inner horse exit." A defensive installation *umadashi 馬出 constructed to fortify the…

Architecture, Castles
uchibori 内堀

1 The inner moat of a castle that has two or more moats.

2 The moat dug on the…

Architecture, Castles
uchiguruwa 内郭

Also read naikaku. Also called naijō 内城. An inner compound. Generally, it refers to the central…

Architecture, Castles
uchikomihagi 打込矧ぎ ✓

Lit. "pounded and inserted stone joinery." The most common stone work technique used to build a dry construction castle wall…

Architecture, Castles
uchimasugata 内桝形

Lit. "inner square box." A type of walled compound *masugata 桝形…

Architecture, Castles
uchisoto hachimonji 内外八文字

A type of loophole *sama 狭間. An opening in a wall for soldiers to…

Architecture, Castles
umadashi koguchi 馬出虎口

A main castle gate *koguchi 虎口 with a small barrier or compound…

Architecture, Castles
umadashi 馬出

A castle entrance barrier. A small barrier or compound, built in front of a castle gate *…

Architecture, Castles
umijiro 海城 Castle on the sea.
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