kuichigai　喰違

KEY WORD :　architecture / castles

Staggered embankments. A castle-wall design where the left and right embankments *doi 土居 beside the castle entrance *koguchi 虎口, do not form a straight line; one embankment juts out in front of the gate. The Yotsuya 四谷 and Akasaka 赤坂 gates of Edojou 江戸城 had cross-over embankments of this type.

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