| 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… |
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 | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yōgai 要害 | Also written 用害. 1 A place of strategic importance, having steep terrain that is easy to defend. In… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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.… |
Architecture, Castles |
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