agari-zashiki

Updated: June 29, 2025

The part called the agari-zashiki was reserved for samurai who had the privilege of admission to the shogun's presence; and in the part called the agariya common, samurai and Buddhist priests were incarcerated. The oro and the hyakusho-ro were reserved for plebeians, and in the onna-ro women were confined. Each section consisted of ten rooms and was capable of accommodating seven hundred persons.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era