sodemasugata 袖桝形
KEY WORD : architecture / castles
 
A defensive square projection in a castle wall on one side of the castle entrance *koguchi 虎口. Where a sodemasugata is built on both sides of a gate the term ryousode masugata 両袖桝形 is used.
 
 

 
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*yokoya masugata 横矢桝形
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