Title Basement and Cellar

  • Aichi
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
Medium/Media of Use:
Web Page
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Inuyama City
Associated Address:
65-2 Kitakoken, Inuyama-shi , Aichi

犬山城 地下一、二階(穴蔵)

犬山城は、その建設に機械や鉄が使用されていないにもかかわらず、何世紀にもわたって建っています。

地下の入り口からは、城の建設に使用された近世の技術の一部を垣間見ることができます。

労働者は、隙間をふさぐためにしっくいを使用せずに、自然な野原の石をランダムに積み上げました(野面積)。この技法は、石垣の建設方法の1つであり、神社や寺院にも使用されていました。

天井に沿って水平に走る太い木製の梁は、19メートル上に上がる天守の支えです。

大工が手で梁を彫り、彼の斧で手打ちされたスケールを見ることができます。

階段の急な角度は、鎧を着て武器を運ぶ侵入者が上昇するのを困難にするように設計されました。


Basement and Cellar

The entrance to the castle is through the basement, which offers a glimpse of the sixteenth-century craftsmanship and construction techniques used to erect the castle, as well as a look at its defensive features.

The castle is supported by a five-meter-high stone base that was constructed by the nozurazumi technique for building dry stone walls. This technique is also used for shrines and temples. In this method, uncut stones are piled in such a way as to minimize gaps between them, and no mortar is used.

The basement is a chamber built between two sections of the stone base, and the stone base itself forms the walls of this chamber, visible inside the basement. The chamber comprises two levels and has a steep staircase. The steep angle of the staircase was designed to impede armor-clad intruders carrying weapons.

The thick wooden beam running horizontally along the ceiling of the upper level of the basement is the main support for the castle tower which rises 19 meters above it. Traces of the workmanship are visible here, too, in the marks of the carpenter’s adze on the surface of the beam.


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