Kido

Japanese: 木戸 - きど

Originally the entrances to castles, and later to streets, gardens, residences, etc., it was a wooden gate with a swinging door and no roof. In the Edo period, the gates that served as guardhouses at the boundaries between samurai residences and town residences, as well as the entrances to theaters and other entertainment venues, were also called "kido." A "kido fee" was charged to pass through a kido, and this was sometimes abbreviated to "kido," and those that were exempt from this were called "kido gomen."

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Japanese:

もと城塞の出入口，のちに街路，庭園，住居などの出入口で，屋根がなく，開き戸のある木の門をいう。江戸時代には武家屋敷と町屋敷の境にあって番所を併設した門や，芝居など興行場の出入口をも木戸といった。木戸の通過に木戸銭をとり，これを木戸と略称することもあって，これを免除されたものを木戸御免といった。

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