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