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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
wajō 倭城

A Japanese castle. Refers to 25 castles constructed in various regions of Korea by the Japanese forces during the Bunroku-…

Architecture, Castles
wakikoguchi 脇虎口

A side entrance to a castle. A small, inconspicuous entrance located on the side of a castle, in contrast with the main gate…

Architecture, Castles
watari yagura 渡櫓 ✓

1 A connecting gallery or tower inside a square compound *masugata…

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