| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| saku 柵 | 1 Fence. Read ki (also written 城) in the ancient period. A palisade of stakes aligned at regular… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
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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