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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
uchi-umadashi 内馬出

Lit. "inner horse exit." A defensive installation *umadashi 馬出 constructed to fortify the…

Architecture, Castles
uchibori 内堀

1 The inner moat of a castle that has two or more moats.

2 The moat dug on the…

Architecture, Castles
uchiguruwa 内郭

Also read naikaku. Also called naijō 内城. An inner compound. Generally, it refers to the central…

Architecture, Castles
uchikomihagi 打込矧ぎ ✓

Lit. "pounded and inserted stone joinery." The most common stone work technique used to build a dry construction castle wall…

Architecture, Castles
uchimasugata 内桝形

Lit. "inner square box." A type of walled compound *masugata 桝形…

Architecture, Castles
uchisoto hachimonji 内外八文字

A type of loophole *sama 狭間. An opening in a wall for soldiers to…

Architecture, Castles
umadashi koguchi 馬出虎口

A main castle gate *koguchi 虎口 with a small barrier or compound…

Architecture, Castles
umadashi 馬出

A castle entrance barrier. A small barrier or compound, built in front of a castle gate *…

Architecture, Castles
umijiro 海城 Castle on the sea.
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