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| hachimaki doi 鉢巻土居 | A "headband" earthen embankment. An earthen embankment with a stone wall constructed on the upper portion. Also … |
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| 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… |
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| hanmasugata 半桝形 | A type of protective box-shaped enclosure *masugata 桝形, found at a castle… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| 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 … |
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| hira-ishi 平石 | Also tsuki-ishi 築石. Broad, flat construction stones used to build the main sections of stone walls *… |
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| hirajiro 平城 | Lit. flatland castle. A castle built on a plain with the main defensive elements being rivers, swamps, and man-made moats.… |
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| 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… |
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| hizumiguruwa 邪郭 | Also written 斜郭. A diagonal section of wall forming part of a gateway barrier *… |
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| hōkeiyakata 方形館 | Lit. Square-shape mansion. A medieval fortified military-class mansion that is surrounded by a square-shaped, or more… |
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| honjō 本城 | 1 The main or central fortification withina single castle. It is similar to *… |
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| 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… |
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| hori 堀 | ✓ | A moat that completely or partially surrounds a castle, palace, or mansion. Moats are primarily for protection but may… |
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| horikiri 堀切 | A dry moat *karabori 空堀, dug to separate and hinder passage between two peaks… |
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| horiuchimichi 堀内道 | A pathway that runs along the bottom of a dry moat *karabori 空堀. Dry moats… |
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| kagamizumi 鏡積み | Lit. mirror piling. A method of masonry used for a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣.… |
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| kakehashi 掛橋 | Also written 架橋 and 懸橋. A wooden bridge that spans a water-filled moat. Supported by posts, the bridge can be removed when a… |
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| kaku-umadashi 角馬出 | A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出, consisting of an earthen… |
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| kakushiguchi 陰口 | Also written 隠口. A hidden castle entrance.
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| kamae 構 | Kamae is an earthen embankment constructed so that it cannot be invaded by an enemy. It has the same meaning as *… |
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| kangō shūraku 環濠集落 | A settlement surrounded by a moat. The earliest enclosed settlement appeared about 2000 years ago and is associated with the… |
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| karabori 空堀 | ✓ | A dry moat, usually with a V-shaped cross-section called *yagenbori 薬研堀. The… |
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| karametemon 搦手門 | Also karameteguchi 搦手口. Term used for the rear gate of a castle from the medieval period onward. Term used in… |
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| kasane-umadashi 重馬出 | Multiple barriers *umadashi 馬出, erected or naturally occurring… |
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| kasanezaka 重坂 | Also read kasanarizaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri… |
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| katsuragi 葛城 | An arrowroot vine fortress. A temporary fortification that dates to the ancient period. Similar to a briar tree fortresses… |
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| kazashi かざし | Also written 風子, 翳. Lit. shade. Walls, embankments, or plants used to prevent the enemy from seeing the activities inside a… |
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| kido 城戸 | Sometimes also written 木戸. A castle door or gate. The entrance and exit to a medieval castle. A simpler structure than the… |
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| kikkōzumi 亀甲積 | ✓ | Lit. tortoise shell stack. Also called roppōzumi 六法積; or hachi-no-su 蜂の巣 meaning honeycomb or bee hive. An… |
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| kiridōshi 切通 | A road, or entrance, that is constructed by cutting through mountainous or hilly terrain, leaving sharply hewed vertical… |
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| kirigishi 切岸 | A man-made, precipitous bank or steep bluff excavated while constructing a road through mountainous terrain *… |
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| kirikomihagi 切込矧ぎ | ✓ | Lit. cut and inserted masonry. A type of stone wall *ishigaki 石垣 construction… |
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| kōgo-ishi 神篭石 | Ancient castle ruins in Western Japan. Rows of stones arranged on mountain slopes in Kyūshū 九州 and Western Japan, including… |
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| koguchi 虎口 | Lit. tiger mouth. A castle entrance. An early modern term likening the castle gateway to the tooth and fang of a tiger,… |
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| kojiro 子城 | Lit. child castle. A branch castle. The main castle is called oyajiro 親城 (parent castle). |
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| koshiguruwa 腰郭 | Lit. waist compound. In a mountain castle *yamajiro 山城, a… |
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| koshimaki doi 腰巻土居 | Also termed koshimaki-ishigaki 腰巻石垣, a waist-bandstone wall. A stone wall built around the lower part of an earthen… |
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| kotenshu 小天守 | A small subsidiary tower. When a castle complex has two or more donjons, the largest is called *… |
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| kuichigai 喰違 | Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi… |
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| kuri-ishi 栗石 | Also pronounced guri-ishi. Chestnut stones. Small stones (10-30 cm in diameter) that were used as packing or… |
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| kuruwa 郭 | Also written 曲輪. The general term for a castle compound. In the medieval period, when a mountain castle *… |
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| kuzurezumi 崩積 | A crumbling wall. A type of stone fence *ishigaki 石垣 in which stones are… |
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| kyojō 居城 | Also read ijō and ijiro. A castle or fortification in which the castle lord resides on a daily basis… |
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| kyokan 居館 | 1 A manor or palace, yakata 館, where a lord resides.
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| kyūkado sama 急角狭間 | A corner loophole or gunport. Loopholes made at a ninety-degree corner of a castle wall, rather than in a flat wall. The… |
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