> On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This historic places map has a list of castle types,
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Historical_Objects/Karteneigenschaften
> There is "Shiro" in the list, which is marked a Japanese Burg.
Its up now and I looked through it.
I take it "berg" is German for castle?
I was suggesting a better (english) definition for castle, as there are castles
all over Japan, albeit many are rebuilt (in a period accurate method) because
only the very large footings are stone. The rest is wood. The wood
construction, using whole trees as supports for the castle towers, is because
the flexibility of the structures was necessary for earthquakes - stone castles
would have collapsed after an earthquake or two. Between the stone footing
shifting in earthquakes (recently damaging Matsumoto-Jo), fire (claiming many
castles in battle), and rot (himeji-jo recently went through its scheduled
renovation to replace the removable support tree trunks with new ones AFAIK),
the wood castles present a "grandfather's axe" issue. But as with other
historic buildings rebuilt after a disaster (the gold temple was rebuilt in the
50s) they basically look at heavy repair as "maintenance" of the structure,
since damage or fire is inevitable.
Javbw
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