| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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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… |
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| 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 *… |
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| 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 *… |
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| 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,… |
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| inagi 稲城 | Also read inaki. Lit. rice plant fortress. A small and temporary defensive palisade of bundles or sheaves of rice… |
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| 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… |
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| ishi no hikae 石の控え | The depth of a stone in a stone wall *ishigaki 石垣. This is the… |
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| 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 *… |
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| 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… |
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| saku 柵 | 1 Fence. Read ki (also written 城) in the ancient period. A palisade of stakes aligned at regular… |
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| sama 狭間 | ✓ | Also read hasama. A loophole or porthole made in the wall of the keep, tower, or parapet to allow a castle to… |
Architecture, Castles |
| samakubari 狭間配 | Lit. "loophole distribution." The number of loopholes per two meter (one ken 間) interval in a castle. Also refers… |
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| satojiro 里城 | A village castle. A medieval castle built in a low-lying village. Typically furnished with defensive installations. |
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| seirō 井楼 | Also termed seirō yagura 井楼櫓. A watch tower. Seirō were built from the Muromachi to the early… |
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| sekimon 石門 | 1 Also read ishimon. A gate made almost entirely of stone, seen especially in Okinawa Prefecture.… |
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| sekishōmon 石牆門 | Also written 石墻門. Lit. "stone wall gate." A gate with either single or triple arch-like openings in a wall made of stacked… |
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| shibadoi 芝土居 | A grass-covered earthen embankment *doi 土居. The embankment is shaped like a… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| shihōzumi 四方積 | Lit. "four quarters piling." Also termed masugatazumi 桝形積 (square measuring box piling), and chikei-no-… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| shijō 支城 | Also read edajiro 枝城. Also hajō 端城. Lit. "branch castle." A fortification, other than the main castle… |
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| shirodori nawabari 城取縄張 | The process of castle construction, from site selection to the layout of the compound. Early modern military technicians… |
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| shōjibori 障子堀 | Also termed kakubori 角堀 (a moat with squared off ridges), or unebori 畝堀 (the general term for a furrowed… |
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| shukujiro 宿城 | 1 Edo period towns used as a stopping place by the Tokugawa 徳川 shoguns when they traveled outside the city… |
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| sodemasugata 袖桝形 | A defensive square projection in a castle wall on one side of the castle entrance *… |
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| sōgamae 総構 | Also termed sōgawa 総河, sometimes written 総側 or 総川, sōguruwa 総郭, 総曲輪. The enclosure that surrounds a town… |
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| sotobori 外堀 | ✓ | The outer moat of a castle that has two or more moats. Generally, the inner slope, nearer the castle, is steep while the… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sōtōgata tenshu 層塔型天守 | Also termed sōtō tenshu 層塔天守. A multi-storied castle tower. A technically advanced tower employing the same careful… |
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| sumi-ishi 隅石 | ✓ | Also read kado-ishi 角石. Lit. "corner stone." Long, rectangularly-hewn stones laid horizontally at the corners of a… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sumijiri-ishi 隅尻石 | Lit. "corner tail stone." The stone that butts against the rear face tomozura 友面 of the corner stone *… |
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| sumiumadashi 隅馬出 | A castle entrance barrier *umadashi 馬出, erected at the corner of an… |
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| sumiyagura 隅櫓 | ✓ | A corner tower. Also written 角櫓. A timber-framed tower set on the corner of a castle wall where two stone walls jut out. In… |
Architecture, Castles |
| sutebori 捨堀 | Moats dug in open areas some distance from a castle, to hinder the advance of enemy forces. |
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| suteguruwa 捨郭 | A sacrificial compound constructed in front of a main compound. A camp used to launch an attacking force. When a force moves… |
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