| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居 | A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanebashi 桔橋 | Also written 刎橋. A draw bridge. A bridge that has a metal hinge attached to the castle side and a rope attached to the the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hanmasugata 半桝形 | A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| heishitaji nuki-no-ireyō 塀下地貫入様 | A method used to insert braces into an earthen wall. One brace was placed above the upper cross piece. Another brace was… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| heishitaji 塀下地 | The material used to build an earthen wall for a castle. This material must be harder than that used for residences in… | Architecture, Castles | |
| hikaebei 控塀 | Any upright pole or post which forms the inner core of an earthen wall with a tiled and gabled roof. One example is found… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hikaegui 控杭 | Any upright pole or post added to the inside of a castle wall for extra support. While hikaegui increased the strength of… | Architecture, Castles | |
| hikihashi 引橋 | 1 Lit. a pull bridge. A type bridge that can be pulled into a castle. One such example is the … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hira-ishi 平石 | Also tsuki-ishi 築石. Broad, flat construction stones used to build the main sections of stone walls *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hirajiro 平城 | Lit. flatland castle. A castle built on a plain with the main defensive elements being rivers, swamps, and man-made moats.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hirayamajiro 平山城 | Also read hirasanjiro. Lit. flatland mountain castle. A castle built on a low mountain, defined as 20 to 100 m high… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hizumiguruwa 邪郭 | Also written 斜郭. A diagonal section of wall forming part of a gateway barrier *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hōkeiyakata 方形館 | Lit. Square-shape mansion. A medieval fortified military-class mansion that is surrounded by a square-shaped, or more… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| honjō 本城 | 1 The main or central fortification withina single castle. It is similar to *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| honmaru 本丸 | Lit. main circle. The principal compound in a castle complex which has more than one compound or ward. It is often, but not… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| hori 堀 | ✓ | A moat that completely or partially surrounds a castle, palace, or mansion. Moats are primarily for protection but may… |
Architecture, Castles |
| horikiri 堀切 | A dry moat *karabori 空堀, dug to separate and hinder passage between two peaks… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| horiuchimichi 堀内道 | A pathway that runs along the bottom of a dry moat *karabori 空堀. Dry moats… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ibaraki 茨城 | Lit. thorn tree fortress. A simple and usually temporary fortress surrounded by thorn trees or briar bushes to defend it… |
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| ichi no mon 一の門 | The first or main gate of a castle. At Matsuyamajō 松山城 in Ehime Prefecture, the gate plan was square *… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| iejiro 家城 | Lit. house castle. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| in no koguchi 陰の虎口 | Defensive castle entrance, or yin entrance. A generic term for various types castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| in'yō no kuruwa 陰陽の郭 | Defensive castle compounds in no kuruwa 陰の郭 and offensive castle compounds yō no kuruwa 陽の郭. In Chinese,… |
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| inagi 稲城 | Also read inaki. Lit. rice plant fortress. A small and temporary defensive palisade of bundles or sheaves of rice… |
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| isama 居狭間 | Loopholes or gun ports that are cut in a castle wall at the height of a seated defender's shoulder. The holes are mainly… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ishi no hikae 石の控え | The depth of a stone in a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣. This is the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ishi-otoshi 石落 | ✓ | Also termed ishi otoshimado 石落窓. Stone drop, or stone drop window. A castle installation built into the keep *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ishigaki 石垣 | ✓ | A dry stone wall. A retaining stone foundation wall built without binding materials over an inclined earthen embankment.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ishisama 石狭間 | A stone loophole used to fire a gun through a castle wall. Unlike the usual loopholes *… |
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| ishiuchidana 石打棚 | A shelf or platform from which stones or small rocks were hurled against an enemy. This shelf or platform runs along the… |
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