Odawara Castle 小田原城
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Description This is the outside koraimon gate of the recently completed (2009) reconstruction of the umadashi entrance. An umadashi entrance is like a small bailey, usually surrounded on three or four sides by a moat, and used to complicate and fortify the entrance to a castle.
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小田原城の写真
main keep main keep
yagura, moat and stone walls Odawara13-t
inside the masugata gate of the umadashi. umadashi entrance and masugata gate
akagane gate uzumimon style gate of a masugata
Akagne gate yaguramon moat and bridge
Tokiwa Gate View from the top of the main keep
moat earthen embankment
dry moat of Komine donjon