| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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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| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
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| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
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| nawabari 縄張 | ✓ | Castle plan; general term for the layout of a castle and its component structures. Lit. "stretched rope," the term is said… |
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| negoya 根小屋 | The *jōkamachi 城下町, or town below the castle in the late medieval… |
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| nejiro 根城 | Also read nejō. Lit. "root castle." The base of military operations. When several castles comprise a unit, … |
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| ni-no-maru 二の丸 | Lit. "second circle." The second compound outside of, or immediately adjacent to the main compound *… |
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| nishi-no-maru 西の丸 | A castle compound to the west of the main compound *honmaru 本丸. In a early-… |
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| noroshidai 烽火台 | Also pronounced hōkadai. Also noroshidai 狼煙台 or noroshiba 狼煙場. A fire beacon; a stone platform on… |
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| nozurazumi 野面積 | ✓ | 1 Also called *ishigaki 石垣; ishigaketsumi 石崖積; … |
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| nunozuki 布築 | Lit. "cloth construction." Ashlar construction. Also termed nunozumi 布積 (cloth piling). A technique used in dry… |
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