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| ibaraki 茨城 | Lit. thorn tree fortress. A simple and usually temporary fortress surrounded by thorn trees or briar bushes to defend it… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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,… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| inagi 稲城 | Also read inaki. Lit. rice plant fortress. A small and temporary defensive palisade of bundles or sheaves of rice… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kagamizumi 鏡積み | Lit. mirror piling. A method of masonry used for a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣.… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kaku-umadashi 角馬出 | A type of defensive gateway barrier *umadashi 馬出, consisting of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| karabori 空堀 | ✓ | A dry moat, usually with a V-shaped cross-section called *yagenbori 薬研堀. The… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasane-umadashi 重馬出 | Multiple barriers *umadashi 馬出, erected or naturally occurring… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kasanezaka 重坂 | Also read kasanarizaka. A type of warrior run *mushabashiri… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| katsuragi 葛城 | An arrowroot vine fortress. A temporary fortification that dates to the ancient period. Similar to a briar tree fortresses… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles |
| kiridōshi 切通 | A road, or entrance, that is constructed by cutting through mountainous or hilly terrain, leaving sharply hewed vertical… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirigishi 切岸 | A man-made, precipitous bank or steep bluff excavated while constructing a road through mountainous terrain *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kirikomihagi 切込矧ぎ | ✓ | Lit. cut and inserted masonry. A type of stone wall *ishigaki 石垣 construction… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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,… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kojiro 子城 | Lit. child castle. A branch castle. The main castle is called oyajiro 親城 (parent castle). |
Architecture, Castles | |
| koshiguruwa 腰郭 | Lit. waist compound. In a mountain castle *yamajiro 山城, a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kotenshu 小天守 | A small subsidiary tower. When a castle complex has two or more donjons, the largest is called *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuichigai 喰違 | Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuri-ishi 栗石 | Also pronounced guri-ishi. Chestnut stones. Small stones (10-30 cm in diameter) that were used as packing or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuruwa 郭 | Also written 曲輪. The general term for a castle compound. In the medieval period, when a mountain castle *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kuzurezumi 崩積 | A crumbling wall. A type of stone fence *ishigaki 石垣 in which stones are… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| kyojō 居城 | Also read ijō and ijiro. A castle or fortification in which the castle lord resides on a daily basis… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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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