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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
fukinukimon 吹貫門

A gate without doors. It may be a roofed opening in a fence or wall, but no gate leaves are hung on the structure.

Architecture, Castles
fukugō tenshu 複合天守 ✓

Also fukugōshiki tenshu 複合式天守. A large tower, *daitenshu 大天守, with…

Architecture, Castles
futaebei 二重塀

Also called taikobei 太鼓塀 or drum wall. A double castle wall that consisted of two separate walls between which…

Architecture, Castles
jinjiro 陣城

Lit. camp fortress. A temporary fortification constructed on a battlefield or stopping-place by armies on the march, used…

Architecture, Castles
jōkamachi 城下町

Lit. town below the castle. A castle town. A town's fortress was located as a rule in a mountain, while the accompanying…

Architecture, Castles
jōsaku 城柵

1 A fence around a castle. See *saku 柵.

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Architecture, Castles
jun'yokoya 順横矢

Lit. regular side arrow.

1 An arrow, gun or cannon attack from inside a castle on the left side of…

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