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NewsBody:	In a collaborative effort with ART, I added a new castle category for [[Fortified Manor|Fortified Manors]] and a brief descriptive page to accompany the classification. [[User:ART|ART]] helped kick off the category with 24 new profiles and helped reclass some of the former [[Flatland|Flatland Castle]] profiles as [[Fortified Manor]]. I have a few of these from my own travels that I've debated adding to the site in the past, but they're now on my to-do list, once I finish off my other in-progress items. Fortified Manors (居館, kyokan) are the fortified residences of powerful local leaders and samurai. They are typically simple rectangular fortifications with a moat and earthen embankment, or sometimes stone walls. In Japanese they are often called Yashiki or Yakata. Many of these Fortified Manors are from the Heian and Kamakura Periods, before castles enlarged and developed to include quarters for samurai and other powerful local lords. In the Sengoku Period you often see the pair of a fortified manor at the foot of the mountain for everyday use and a mountaintop castle for use in times of unrest. There is a frequently used Japanese castle term 城館 (jokan), which includes the characters for both castle (城) and fortified manors (館) that clearly covers both. There are a few yakata in the [[Top 100 Castles]] and [[Next 100 Castles]] so this is a natural extension for Jcastle.
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