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General view of the castle. |
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Moat. |
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Stone-dropping window. |
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Construction techniques. |
We all loved the atmosphere of this city on the east coast. After a late (for us) breakfast, we set off in the bus to Kenrokuen, a famously beautiful landscape garden, where we had plenty of free time to wander around on our own.
I was more interested in seeing Kanazawa Castle and spent a long time inside, looking at all the displays about construction techniques, mainly in wood. There was a video in Japanese, which showed how beams were fastened together with pegs of wood. This enabled high floors to be erected, but the material made it susceptible to fire ( which occurred a lot in Japanese castles!). I liked the holes in the floors of corner turrets, designed for rolling heavy stones onto enemies attempting to scale the walls.
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Stone-dropping windows from outside. |
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Archaeological excavations going on outside. The archaeologists were all at lunch and got back to work at 1.00 pm exactly. |
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Roof construction using timber and lead. |
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Scale model of the castle. |
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