Kido

Japanese: 城戸 - きど
Kido

…In modern times, it refers to a simple wooden door outside, but in ancient and medieval times it was written as sakudo or kido and meant an entrance to a fence or castle. In the early modern period, it also referred to gates with a strong military element, such as the entrance to the castle grounds of a castle town, but it mainly came to mean gates installed at key points on the main streets of large cities such as Edo and Osaka. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Kido" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現代では,戸外にある木製の簡単な構造の戸をさすが,古代・中世には柵戸,ないし城戸と書かれ,柵や城郭の出入口を意味した。ついで近世では,城下町の郭内への出入口などの軍事的要素の強い門のこともいうが,主として江戸・大坂などの大都市の表通りの町境の要所に設けられた門のことを意味するようになる。…

※「城戸」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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