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• File:Otsu12.jpg  + (Mostly fill-in of the lake but part of the Honmaru)
• File:Yamura4.jpg  + (Mountain in the back is Katsuyama Castle)
• File:Hanazono43.jpg  + (Mountain on the right is where Hanazono Castle is and the mountain on the left is the satellite castle Hanazono Mitake Castle.)
• File:Jofukuji24.jpg  + (Mountain side)
• File:Senpuku10.jpg  + (Mountain where the castle was located)
• File:Hasedo31.jpg  + (Mountain with the castle and moat in the foreground)
• File:Gobara10.jpg  + (Mountainside)
• File:Takatsukitokyo1.jpg  + (Mountainside cut to create a man made cliff out the tip of the mountain ridge)
• Mountaintop  + (Mountaintop Castles were the predominant c … Mountaintop Castles were the predominant castle type prior to the Edo Period and most common during the Sengoku Period. During the more peaceful times they were often used as a lookout point or relay point for smoke signals and to watch major roads into one's territory. People typically did not live in Sengoku Period mountaintop castles. Logistically they were not well suitable for governing or living so lord's would often have a fortified home in a more reasonable location with one or more nearby mountaintop castles where the lord and his family and retainers could flee to during times of unrest. </br></br>The common features of mountaintop castles are trenches and ditches of various types used to impede the movement of attackers and create lines of fire to more easily shoot arrows at the attackers. Mountaintop Castles may have also used some earthen embankments to create barriers around baileys and they would have also carved the mountainsides to make them more steep (kirigishi). Stonework was mostly used to shore up the sides of baileys to create more open spaces and prevent erosion until the castles of the latter Sengoku Period when Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi started building mountain castles with much more stonework. Their power struggles mostly focused on central and western so that is where you see the most Sengoku Period mountaintop castle stonework. The Nagano area also has some fascinating stonework at mountaintop castles, that developed independently from the Nobunaga-Hideyoshi influence.tly from the Nobunaga-Hideyoshi influence.)
• File:Kannonji32.jpg  + (Mt Kinugasa. At one time the castle took up the top half of this mountain.)
• File:Motosu46.jpg  + (Mt. Fuji)
• File:Takatenjin3.jpg  + (Mt. Fuji as seen from the Sannomaru bailey.)
• File:Matsugasakikyoto8.jpg  + (Mt. Hiei)
• File:Takatenjin13.jpg  + (Mt. Kakuoh as seen from near the Hijikata Bus stop. This is where the castle was.)
• File:Karasawayama3.jpg  + (Mt. Karasawayama)
• File:Kasugayama21.jpg  + (Mt. Kasuga)
• File:Saiki6.jpg  + (Mt. Shiroyama where Saiki Castle is located.<div align="right"><small>Picture courtesy of <a href="http://www.samurai-archives.com/">Samurai Archives</a></small></div>)
• File:Iwasakiyama17.jpg  + (Mt. Shizugatake as seen from across Lake Yogo)
• File:Hagimurata2.jpg  + (Murata Seifu Residence Nagayamon)
• File:Hagimurata1.jpg  + (Murata Seifu Residence Nagayamon)
• File:Hagimurata4.jpg  + (Murata Seifu Residence Nagayamon)
• File:Hagimurata3.jpg  + (Murata Seifu Residence Nagayamon)
• File:Hagiwalls2.jpg  + (Museum Compound)
• File:Yokote18.jpg  + (Museum and Ninomaru Bailey seen from across the Yokote River)
• File:Koga museum of history; Kogajô (3).JPG  + (Museum of History)

• File:Akitakayama20.jpg  + (Mushabashiri - small land bridge between 2 baileys)

• File:Wakamatsu21.jpg  + (Mushahashiri - stone stairs for warriors to quickly scale the stone wall.)
• File:Ichinomiya2.jpg  + (Myojinmaru bailey)
• File:Yagitanba53.jpg  + (Mysterious line of stones)
• File:Sasayama2.jpg  + (NE Umadashi Gate)
• File:Sasayama3.jpg  + (NE Umadashi Gate)
• File:Sasayama4.jpg  + (NE Umadashi Gate)
• File:NishiojouNinomaruUshitoraYagura (1).JPG  + (NINOMARU Ushitora Yagura, reconstructed in 2020)
• File:Kurokawashi6.jpg  + (NW embankment of residences area)
• File:Kanazawa79.jpg  + (Nagashi, the kitchen area)
• File:Annaka1.jpg  + (Nagaya)
• File:Annaka4.jpg  + (Nagaya)
• File:Annaka6.jpg  + (Nagaya)
• File:Annaka7.jpg  + (Nagaya)
• File:Annaka15.jpg  + (Nagaya Gate)
• File:Tsuwano52.jpg  + (Nagaya Gate of the Yorokan. The Yorokan was a "Han School" or school for the children of the domain's lord and his retainers.)
• File:Matsushiro57.jpg  + (Nagaya house for servants)
• File:Marugame64.jpg  + (Nagaya room connected to the guardhouse.)
• File:Annaka12.jpg  + (Nagaya rooms)
• File:Akizuki1.jpg  + (Nagayamon)
• File:Nijo15b.jpg  + (Nagayamon)
• File:Izushi11.jpg  + (Nagayamon Gate)
• File:Tatebayashi buyokan6.jpg  + (Nagayamon Gate)
• File:Tatebayashi buyokan11.jpg  + (Nagayamon Gate)
• File:Tatebayashi buyokan9.jpg  + (Nagayamon Gate)
• File:Tatebayashi buyokan5.jpg  + (Nagayamon Gate)