| 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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| yagenbori 薬研堀 | A widely used moat with sides that slope like an earthen embankment. The name is derived from the moat having a bottom with… |
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| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
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| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
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| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
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| yamajiro 山城 | ✓ | Lit. "mountain castle." A castle built on a mountain to take advantage of the mountain's topography. One of the three main… |
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| yamame uchikomizumi 山目打込積み | Lit. "mountain eye pounding and inserting piling." A dry construction method used to pile stones for a stone wall *… |
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| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
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| yashikijiro 屋敷城 | A small castle or fortification built like a a country house or mansion yashiki 屋敷. In the middle ages, it usually… |
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| yazama 矢狭間 | An arrow loophole in a castle wall. Also sengan 箭眼. Characterized by a vertical opening about 45 cm high (1 … |
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| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
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| yōgai 要害 | Also written 用害. 1 A place of strategic importance, having steep terrain that is easy to defend. In… |
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| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
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| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
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| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
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| yokoya hizumi 横矢邪 | Also written 横矢斜 and 横矢歪. Lit. "distorted rampart." A diagonal projection from a castle rampart. Used by defending troops to… |
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| yokoya masugata 横矢桝形 | Also termed demasugata 出桝形. A defensive box-shaped courtyard *masugata… |
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| yokoya sumi-otoshi 横矢角落 | ✓ | Also written 横矢隅落. A diagonally cut-away corner of a castle tower, used to launch side attacks *… |
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| yosekakebashira 寄掛柱 | A post set against a castle's sloping stone wall, at the same angle of incline, under the watch tower gate *… |
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| yukidomariguruwa 行留郭 | A cul-de-sac compound. A long and narrow castle compound with only one gateway entrance which turns into a blind alley.… |
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