| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| 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… |
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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… |
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 | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yagura 櫓 | ✓ | A guard tower set atop the corners of a castle's stone wall and other strategic positions overlooking the surrounding area.… |
Architecture, Castles |
| yakatajiro 館城 | Also written 屋形城. |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yamajiro-no-koguchi 山城の虎口 | A mountain castle entrance. The entrance *koguchi 虎口 of a mountain… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yarisama 鑓狭間 | A loophole for thrusting pikes and spears. Typically, they are installed in narrow locations beside main castle entrances… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 … |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yō no koguchi 陽の虎口 | Positive castle entrance or yang entrance. A generic term for various types of castle entrance *… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yōgai 要害 | Also written 用害. 1 A place of strategic importance, having steep terrain that is easy to defend. In… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokobori 横堀 | A lateral dry moat excavated crosswise in front of a mountain castle *yamajiro… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokosama 横狭間 | A side loophole of the *yarisama 鑓狭間 type for pike and spears. Typically… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| yokoya 横矢 | Lit. "side arrow." |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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… |
Architecture, Castles | |
| 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 *… |
Architecture, Castles |
| 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.… |
Architecture, Castles |
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