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The Yuri Coast Seawall (由利海岸波除石垣, Yuri kaigan namiyoke ishigaki) is an Edo period (1600-1868) seawall against high waves, salt spray, and strong winds on the Sea of Japan coast in what is now part of the city of Nikaho, Akita. [1] Its remains were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1997. [2]
The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. ' Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography '), also known as the Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Battened clapboard wall [1] [28] Clapboarding with notched vertical battens over the boards. Bark-and-batten wall (Japanese term?) more images: Bark-and-batten wall Vertical sheets of bark, held down with horizontal battens; used as a stand-alone wall or as a decorative facing. [1] Used on poorer houses in the south of Japan in the 1880s. [1]
[4] [5] Survivors said they saw some residents climb onto the sea defenses to watch the approaching tsunami only to be swept away when the waves went over the wall. [2] Many in the town said they felt the wall lulled them into a false sense of security. [6] A 500 m (1,600 ft) section of the seaside wall was swept away by the tsunami.
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.
Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [5 ...
Lot's Wife (孀婦岩, Sōfu-iwa or Sōfugan, "Widow Rock") is a volcanic desert island located in the Philippine Sea approximately 650 kilometres (400 mi) south off the coast of Tokyo, at the southernmost tip of the Izu archipelago, Japan. Though only 0.01 km 2 in area, it reaches almost 100 meters in height.
The tax was usually one sun (3.3 cm) of the wall's length per 1 tan of rice field; the weapons were one shield, one flag and 20 arrows per 1 jo (3.314 yards) of stone wall. The tax was in the form of men who constructed the wall and in the form of the items (weapons), but later the tax was paid in money; 114 mon per one cho of rice field was ...