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(2) Hishi Yagura 1st Floor
Hishi-Yagura (Diamond Turret) is a 17 meter tall, three-story building, and it is constructed on an 11.7 meter high stone wall. The "yagura" was also called "ya-no-kura," which literally means a storage place for weapons, but this yagura functioned as a watchtower for the surrounding area
"hishi" or diamond shape with angles of 80 degrees and 100 degrees. Since the building is diamond shaped, its posts are diamond-shaped, too. The four straight posts are made of Japanese cypress, which are 14 meters tall, 33 centimeters wide, and approximately 100 other posts are all diamond shaped. You can see that building this structure required extremely sophisticated construction techniques.
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