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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
jinjiro 陣城

Lit. camp fortress. A temporary fortification constructed on a battlefield or stopping-place by armies on the march, used…

Architecture, Castles
jōkamachi 城下町

Lit. town below the castle. A castle town. A town's fortress was located as a rule in a mountain, while the accompanying…

Architecture, Castles
jōsaku 城柵

1 A fence around a castle. See *saku 柵.

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Architecture, Castles
jun'yokoya 順横矢

Lit. regular side arrow.

1 An arrow, gun or cannon attack from inside a castle on the left side of…

Architecture, Castles
ransekizumi 乱石積 ✓

Also *ranzumi 乱積. Piling up unhewn rocks or random masonry. The earliest and…

Architecture, Castles
renketsu tenshu 連結天守 ✓

Also called renketsushiki tenshu 連結式天守. A castle in which the principle tower or keep *…

Architecture, Castles
renritsu tenshu 連立天守

Lit. "connected towers." Also termed renritsushiki tenshu 連立式天守. An extensive, highly-developed castle complex…

Architecture, Castles

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University