| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| obiguruwa 帯郭 | Lit. "belt compound." A long narrow castle compound. Obiguruwa were often constructed on the top of an earthen… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōgi-no-kōbai 扇の勾配 | ✓ | Lit. "fan slope." Also ōgikōbai 扇勾配 or miyakōbai 宮勾配 (shrine slope). The concave pitch of a stone… |
Architecture, Castles |
| ōgi-no-nawa 扇の縄 | Also written 扇子の縄. A castle plan shaped like a folding fan wherein the fortifications are distributed on either side of the… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| okajō 丘城 | Lit. "hillcastle." Also termed kyūryō jōkaku 丘陵城郭. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| oribei 折塀 | A castle wall that is undulates with indentations and protrusions. It is designed to allow for the strategic placement of… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| orizama 折狭間 | A loophole in a wall *oribei 折塀 that zigzags back and forth like a folding screen *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| ōte 大手 | Also written 追手. |
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| ōtemon 大手門 | The front gate of a castle. Derive from *ōte 大手, the front of a castle or… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| satojiro 里城 | A village castle. A medieval castle built in a low-lying village. Typically furnished with defensive installations. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| seirō 井楼 | Also termed seirō yagura 井楼櫓. A watch tower. Seirō were built from the Muromachi to the early… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| sekimon 石門 | 1 Also read ishimon. A gate made almost entirely of stone, seen especially in Okinawa Prefecture.… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Gates, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| shukujiro 宿城 | 1 Edo period towns used as a stopping place by the Tokugawa 徳川 shoguns when they traveled outside the city… |
Architecture, General Terms, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles |
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