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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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| tachisama 立狭間 | A loophole *sama 狭間 cut in a wall about chest high to a standing soldier.… |
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| tai-no-shiro 対の城 | Lit. "confronting castle." Also termed mukaijiro 向城 (facing castle) and *tsukejiro… |
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| tamon 多聞 | Also termed tamon-zukuri 多聞造, tamon'yagura 多聞櫓 (many listen tower) and tamon nagaya 多聞長屋 (many… |
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| tatakidoi 敲土居 | A pounded earth embankment. It was made of layers of earth mixed with water, pounded down and allowed to harden. The wall… |
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| tate 館 | Also read tachi. A small castle shiro 城 and/or a wealthy provincial residence *… |
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| tatebori 竪堀 | A vertical dry moat. Also read tatsubori; sometimes written 立堀, 竪濠. A dry moat *… |
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| teikakushiki 梯郭式 | Lit. "ladder-shaped compound plan." Short for teikakushiki nawabari 梯郭式縄張. A plan that fortified a castle entrance… |
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| tenshu shinbashira 天守心柱 | Lit. "tower central pillar." A pillar found in the main structure of castles, sometimes used singly and sometimes in pairs.… |
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| tenshu 天守 | ✓ | Also called tenshukaku 天守閣, tenshuyagura 天守櫓. Also written 天主, 殿主, and 殿守. The principal tower-like… |
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| tenshudai 天守台 | ✓ | The independent raised foundation upon which the principal tower *tenshu 天守 was constructed.… |
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| teppō sama 鉄砲狭間 | Also called jūgan 銃眼 (loophole). A gun loophole or gun port. An opening through which to shoot a firearm from… |
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| terakōbai 寺勾配 | Also termed nawadarumi 縄だるみ (slackened rope). A concave shaped stone wall with a curved surface that resembles a… |
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| tojō 外城 | Also read sotojiro. An outer castle or fortification. |
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| toride 砦 | Also written 取出, 取手, 塞 also 寨. A small-scale fort, fortification, or stronghold. A structure built near the main castle or… |
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| tsubosama 坪狭間 | Also written 壷狭間. Large bamboo stalks that are cut in section, painted and placed in outer castle walls and in the walls of… |
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| tsuji-umadashi 辻馬出 | An intersection barrier. A single barrier that is constructed to defend two entrances to a castle that have been constructed… |
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| tsukejiro 付城 | 1 A fortification built as a staging camp from which to attack an enemy's castle… |
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| tsukimi yagura 月見櫓 | ✓ | A moon viewing tower of the *yagura 櫓 type found at a number of castles. Also… |
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| tsume-no-shiro 詰の城 | Also read tsumejiro 詰城, or written 爪城 or tsume-no-shiro 攻の城. |
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| tsunagi-no-shiro 繋の城 | Same as tsunagijiro or tsunagishiro 繋城. 1 A type of branch castle *… |
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| tsuribei 釣塀 | A decoy wall, or pseudo-wall. A wall that was built so as to hang over an earthen embankment or stone wall of a castle. When… |
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| tsuzuki yagura 続櫓 | Tower connected with a gate or another tower. Examples connected to gates include Hikone-jō Taikomon 彦根城太鼓門 in Shiga… |
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