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Main tower Outer moat of Osaka Castle. Osaka Castle (大坂城 or 大阪城, Ōsaka-jō) is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan.The castle is one of Japan's most famous landmarks and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
Plan of Matsushiro Castle. Matsushiro Castle is located in the flatlands of northern Shinano, in-between the main stream of the Chikuma River and a former bed of the river, which serves as a broad outer moat on the north side of the castle. Due to its location, the castle (and surrounding castle town) was subjected to occasional flooding.
Layout of Utsunomiya Castle, c. Edo period. The arrangement of gates and walls sees one of the key tactical differences in design between the Japanese castle and its European counterpart. A complex system of a great many gates and courtyards leading up to the central keep serves as one of the key defensive elements.
Oda Castle is located at the foot of Mount Oda and was originally little more than a fortified manor house with a moat and earthen rampart. During the Sengoku period, it was expanded to include a second, third and fourth concentric enclosure, each with an elaborate maze-like system of water moats.
The castle ruins consist of eight enclosures built at the tail of the mountain ridge, measuring approximately 340 meters from east-to-west. While there are several single-bailey castles ruins from this period in Amakusa, Tanasoko Castle has a complex layout and was also protected by a fortified triple moat built from the north to the east of ...
The castle layout consists of a complex series of moats surrounding the main and secondary enclosures. The main enclosure housed the tenshu erected by Oda Nobutaka, which records indicate was compound structure with the main tower of five or six stories in the southwest and a smaller tower in the northeast, with roof tiles decorated in gold leaf .
Miyazu Castle makes extensive use of the Ōte River to the west as its outer moat. The complex consists of the inner bailey (Honmaru), a second bailey (Ninomaru) to the east and south, separated by a moat, and the third bailey (Sannomaru), also protected by a moat and stone walls.
Fukuoka Castle (福岡城, Fukuoka-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is also known as Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城 Maizuru-jō) or Seki Castle (石城 Seki-jō). Completed in the early Edo period for tozama daimyō Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been decreed a historic site by the Japanese government. The castle lies in ...