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| naijō 内城 | The innermost compound *kuruwa 郭 of a castle. Sometimes called *… |
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| nakajō 中城 | Also *ni-no-maru 二の丸, ni-no-kuruwa 二の郭, naka-no-maru 中の丸.… |
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| nawabari 縄張 | ✓ | Castle plan; general term for the layout of a castle and its component structures. Lit. "stretched rope," the term is said… |
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| negoya 根小屋 | The *jōkamachi 城下町, or town below the castle in the late medieval… |
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| nejiro 根城 | Also read nejō. Lit. "root castle." The base of military operations. When several castles comprise a unit, … |
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| ni-no-maru 二の丸 | Lit. "second circle." The second compound outside of, or immediately adjacent to the main compound *… |
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| nishi-no-maru 西の丸 | A castle compound to the west of the main compound *honmaru 本丸. In a early-… |
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| noroshidai 烽火台 | Also pronounced hōkadai. Also noroshidai 狼煙台 or noroshiba 狼煙場. A fire beacon; a stone platform on… |
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| nozurazumi 野面積 | ✓ | 1 Also called *ishigaki 石垣; ishigaketsumi 石崖積; … |
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| nunozuki 布築 | Lit. "cloth construction." Ashlar construction. Also termed nunozumi 布積 (cloth piling). A technique used in dry… |
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| 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… |
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| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
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| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
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| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
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| 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… |
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| 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 *… |
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| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
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| 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… |
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| 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 … |
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| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
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| yōgai 要害 | Also written 用害. 1 A place of strategic importance, having steep terrain that is easy to defend. In… |
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| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
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| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
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| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
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| 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… |
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| 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 *… |
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| 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.… |
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