uchibori 内堀
KEY WORD : architecture / castles
 
1 The inner moat of a castle that has two or more moats.

2 The moat dug on the interior side of a mountain castle wall to act as a back-up for that part of the wall that has been destroyed. See *sotobori 外堀.
 
 

 
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