Japanese castle architecture, Renketsushiki

Many Japanese castles have surrounding towers (yagura) used as watch towers or as storage rooms. Depending on how the connection was made between the main keep (tenshukaku) and the yagura, a number of construction styles were defined and I already presented the Fukugoshiki style of the Inuyama Castle (with the main keep directly connected to the yagura) and the Renketsushiki style of the Matsumoto Castle (where the main keep is linked to the yagura by a roofed passage).

Today, I would like to show you a different, less common version of Renketsushiki, which can be seen at the Nagoya Castle, where the passage between the towers is roofless...