| 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… |
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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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| uchi-umadashi 内馬出 | Lit. "inner horse exit." A defensive installation *umadashi 馬出 constructed to fortify the… |
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| uchibori 内堀 | 1 The inner moat of a castle that has two or more moats. |
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| uchiguruwa 内郭 | Also read naikaku. Also called naijō 内城. An inner compound. Generally, it refers to the central… |
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| 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… |
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| uchisoto hachimonji 内外八文字 | A type of loophole *sama 狭間. An opening in a wall for soldiers to… |
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| umadashi koguchi 馬出虎口 | A main castle gate *koguchi 虎口 with a small barrier or compound… |
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| umadashi 馬出 | A castle entrance barrier. A small barrier or compound, built in front of a castle gate *… |
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| umijiro 海城 | Castle on the sea. |
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