| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| daiba 台場 | ✓ | A fort located at a strategic location on a sea coast, riverbank, or island. It was furnished with large guns. Daiba were… |
Architecture, Castles |
| daiin-no-koguchi 大陰の虎口 | Also written 大陰虎口. A simple, early form of castle entrance *koguchi … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| daitenshu 大天守 | Lit. large *tenshu 天守. The principal tower. The largest tenshu in a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dashibei 出塀 | A wall projecting 15-30 cm outward from the flat top, *inubashiri 犬走り, of a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| deguruwa 出郭 | A compound that juts out or is slightly separated from the main components of a castle complex, which include: the main… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dejiro 出城 | 1 Outer citadel. Also tsukejiro 付け城, hajiro 端城, edajiro 枝城. A type of branch… |
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| dezama 出狭間 | A loophole, *sama 狭間, that projects out from the frame of a window opening in… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dobashi 土橋 | 1 Lit. earthen bridge. An earthen bridge, which is made by leaving an unexcavated section of moat in front… |
Architecture, Castles, Gardens | |
| doi 土居 | Also dorui 土塁. An earthen embankment, earthwork, or rampart. A defensive embankment surrounding a castle or a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| doijiki 土居敷 | The foundation bed, shiki 敷, of an earthen embankment, *doi 土居. It has… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| dokuritsu tenshu 独立天守 | ✓ | Lit. independent donjon or keep. Also called dokuritsushiki tenshu 独立式天守, dokuritsu tenshukaku 独立天守閣. A… |
Architecture, Castles |
| dote 土手 | 1 The flat top of an embankment, *doi 土居, also called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| gangizaka 雁木坂 | One type of warrior run *mushabashiri 武者走, comprised of stone steps … |
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| gobōzumi 牛蒡積 | Burdock masonry. A construction technique used to lay the stones in a dry stone wall *… |
Architecture, Castles |
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