櫓・矢倉|やぐらyagura[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounturret; watchtower
2. nounhigh wooden stage; scaffolding
3. nounwooden frame (of a kotatsu)
4. noun, shogiyagura; fortress
5. nounweapons storehouse

• Related塔とうNeutralRefers to pagodas or tall tower-shaped buildings; 「櫓」 is a watchtower on castle walls or a stage built for festivals.
• RelatedタワーNeutralA loanword for modern towers such as 「東京タワー」; 「櫓」 is a traditional wooden stage or watchtower.
• Related楼閣ろうかくWrittenWritten style for a grand multistoried building, as in 「砂上の楼閣」; 「櫓」 is a simple raised stage or watchtower.
• Related楼ろうWrittenWritten style: a tall building, often a suffix as in 「鐘楼」; 「櫓」 is a watchtower or raised stage.
• Related高閣こうかくWrittenWritten and rare: a tall building; not used in everyday speech.
• Related楼観ろうかんWrittenWritten and rare: a watchtower; in everyday speech one says 「物見櫓」.

Use 「櫓」 for a castle watchtower, a festival stage like a bon-dance platform, or a kotatsu frame. Pagodas take 「塔」, modern towers 「タワー」, grand multistoried buildings 「楼閣」; 「楼」, 「高閣」 and 「楼観」 are written-style words.

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1. 武器ぶき倉庫そうこ。
2. 木材もくざいや鉄骨てっこつを組み立くみたてて建たてられた高たかい構造物こうぞうぶつ。
3. 城壁じょうへきの上うえに兵士へいしの指揮しきや展望てんぼう、攻撃こうげきなどのために造つくられた高楼こうろう。
4. 炬燵こたつの枠わく。
5. 将棋しょうぎの囲かこいのひとつ。
6. 崖がけや大おおきな岩石がんせきに掘ほられた穴あなを利用りようした倉くらや墓所ぼしょ。