Hagi Castle - Bukeyashiki Buildings

This album showcases the original structures from other samurai residences where the house no longer exists so it does not have a separate samurai residence page. The most common structure type below is the nagayamon or nagaya. As the name implies ("long house" or row house) gates are large structur

Hagi Castle - Bukeyashiki Buildings

This album showcases the original structures from other samurai residences where the house no longer exists so it does not have a separate samurai residence page. The most common structure type below is the nagayamon or nagaya. As the name implies ("long house" or row house) gates are large structures that were typically quarters for lower class samurai, guards, or other family servants or retainers. This also helped them to serve double duty as a defense for the main gate into the compound. Sections of a nagayamon could have also been used for storage or a stable.

The gates where you can enter and see such living quarters are ordered first among those below. The rest on the list do not have interiors open to the public.