Title Stone-Drop

  • 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 石落とし

この窓は、見かけ上は無害です。仕掛け窓のある木製の壁が石垣から突き出ています。外から見ると、それは美的特徴のように見えます。しかし、取り外し可能な床板には、防御者が下の堀から急な城壁を攻略しようとする侵入者を監視できる開口部があります。防御側は、侵略者に矢を放つことで反撃することもできます。目立たない窓は、防御者が弓や銃を侵入者に向けることも可能にします。


Stone-Drop

This seemingly innocuous feature of the keep appears from the outside to be a decoration. A section of the wooden wall of the first floor of the castle extends over the stone wall in a slightly curving flare. The unexpected element is that the floorboards are removable and reveal a trapdoor that would allow defenders to observe intruders attempting to scale the steep castle wall from the moat below. Defenders could counterattack by dropping stones or boiling water on the intruders, or by shooting them with arrows or guns.


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