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• File:Imabari3.jpg  + (A closer view of the bridge, yagura and gate at the entrance to the castle seen in the previous picture.)
• File:Sekiyado3.jpg  + (A closer view of the main keep and connected structures. It does look much like the Fujimi Yagura of Edo-jo in Tokyo.)
• File:Takada7.jpg  + (A closer view of the main keep.)
• File:Akizuki6.jpg  + (A closer view of the original Nagayamon on the left. It was used as the rear entrance to the castle.)
• File:Yodo18.jpg  + (A closer view of the stone walls from inside the honmaru.)
• File:Nihonmatsu5.jpg  + (A closer view of the stone walls surrounding the honmaru. The steps to the right are the entrance.)
• File:Tatsuno3.jpg  + (A closer view of the yaguramon gate. This gate is interesting in that it is also an uzumimon gate (buried gate). The entranceway is below ground and the area behind it can be easily backfilled to prevent attackers from breaking through this gate.)
• File:Inawashiro6.jpg  + (A connected bailey outside the honmaru)
• File:Matsuoko12.jpg  + (A corner of the stone wall from the previous photo.)
• File:Shirakawa7.jpg  + (A corner section of stone walls at the honmaru.)
• File:Ozu52.jpg  + (A covered loophole of the Sannomaru South Corner Yagura)
• File:Ashigara5.jpg  + (A different angle of the same horikiri with the third bailey on the right and Mt Kintoki straight ahead on the distance.)
• File:Takane7.jpg  + (A different angle of the two outer protective baileys for the castle. Notice the large moat or trench (horikiri) dug between the first and second baileys.)
• File:Tsuwano18.jpg  + (A different section of the Sannomaru Bailey. This housed the Daidoko, or kitchen, Yagura.)
• File:Kunohe8.jpg  + (A different section of the honmaru moat. You can see more remains of the original stonework here too.)
• File:Kunohe1.jpg  + (A different section of the moat of the Honmaru bailey.)
• File:Gassan15.jpg  + (A different shot of the stone walls around the Sanchuu Palace Area)
• File:Kozukue11.jpg  + (A different view of the dobashi bridge. This gives you a better idea of the steeps moat on either side of the bridge.)
• File:Kasama9.jpg  + (A different view of the previous picture that shows the yakuimonn style of the gate better.)
• File:Seiryuin4.jpg  + (A distant view of the mountain)
• File:Kozukue9.jpg  + (A dobashi bridge entering into the honmaru … A dobashi bridge entering into the honmaru. Dobashi literally means earthen bridge. At one point in the middle of the dry moat between two baileys they build up a thin wall connecting the two baileys to help facilitate movement between the two. It is not quite as high as the bailey itself, but it is much higher than the bottom of the moat so it makes movement much easier but is still easily defended. much easier but is still easily defended.)
• File:Takamatsu27.jpg  + (A door of the Mizunotegomon in the early morning sun.)
• File:Tanaka8.jpg  + (A drawing of what the original castle compound looked like.)
• File:Takatenjin10.jpg  + (A dry moat and earthen bridge.)
• File:Kunohe6.jpg  + (A few stones left in the stone wall of the honmaru moat embankment. During it's peak, Kunohe Castle had some of the most advanced stone walls in Eastern Japan.)

• File:Aki14.jpg  + (A gate from a samurai home)

• File:Katsuyama7.jpg  + (A gate into the main compound)
• File:Takatsukitokyo2.jpg  + (A gate or entranceway along the otemichi, main road to the castle)
• File:Edo51.jpg  + (A gate to the Lord of Kii's Palace. Kii is present day Wakayama Pref. The lord of Kii was one of the three main Tokugawa related lords.)
• File:Tanaka3.jpg  + (A granary from the Edo Period.)
• File:Himeji16.jpg  + (A great view of the tenshu from the Nishi-no-maru. Does it look like a White Heron to you?)
• File:Nirayama11.jpg  + (A horikiri and entrance to the Honmaru bailey)
• File:Takajin3.jpg  + (A kitchen area is on the right and the city offices form the previous picture are on the left.)
• File:Usui31.jpg  + (A koshiguruwa off the main bailey. The embankment here at the entrance is higher than the rest so it may have been the foundation for a yagura.)
• File:Fukazawa13.jpg  + (A large crescent shaped moat outside the Sannomaru Bailey)
• File:Takatenjin9.jpg  + (A large horikiri moat)
• File:Nirayama1.jpg  + (A large pond on the east side of the castle used like a moat for defense)
• File:Kasama2.jpg  + (A large section of this wall crumbled in the earthquake. Many of the tiles are broken too so I don't know if it can ever really be restored.)
• File:Ori26.jpg  + (A large stone that has already been split in several places.)
• File:Odani37.jpg  + (A large vertical dry moat)
• File:Mumo12.jpg  + (A large yokobori, or horizontal moat (trench)t that rings most of the Ninomaru and Honmaru baileys.)
• File:Senpuku2.jpg  + (A leveled bailey type area)
• File:Takashima11.jpg  + (A little better angle to see the gate, moat, bridge and main keep.)
• File:Obata30.jpg  + (A long thin bailey between two deep trenches in the middle of the castle that housed a lookout tower. If it was attacked it probably could have monitored everything going on all around.)
• File:Oyama11.jpg  + (A look at the main keep form across a moat and bridge.)
• File:Ashigara6.jpg  + (A look back through the second bailey.)
• File:Murakami18.jpg  + (A look down into the entrance to the honmaru from above the stone walls.)
• File:Karasawayama21.jpg  + (A lookout in the northeast of the castle. You can also see a small koshiguruwa bailey below this point.)
• File:Kirihara41.jpg  + (A lower bailey as seen from the main bailey.)
• File:Yokosuka2.jpg  + (A map of Yokosuka Castle)
• File:Sugiyama2.jpg  + (A map of the castle and illustration of the Umadashi entrance to the South Third Bailey.)