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Sometimes it's shown as an enclosure with an entrance.

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> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4vj8i.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4vj8i.jpg)
> Dororo episode 9 @ 10:22

Sometimes it's set up more like a maze.

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDff2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDff2.jpg)
> Dororo episode 6 @ 12:15

It's never shown with any shade or shelter from the rain. It's always
surrounded by banners. What is it called and what is it for?


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What is this camp screen in Dororo?


Those would be [Jinmaku(陣幕) tents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinmaku), all
though the screens themselves are also known as gunmaku(軍幕) which stands for
military curtains.

In feudal Japan, these curtain enclosures where used to set up military
encampments. Often housing the General and their strategists. The symbols on
the Jinmaku would be clan symbols of the general being housed in the tent.

Beyond blocking wind, and the occasional prying eye, these tents where
considered a sacred item by Samurai. It was said the Jinmaku had the power to
drive evil way.

Prior to the [Murmachi period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muromachi_period)
there where no set guideliness on creating these tents, however during this
period, and later on [Arai
Hakuseki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arai_Hakuseki) the construction would
become standardized. To the point that combatants could even identify what
kind of personal the tents where housing based on the number of makukuji (幕串),
or poles for hanging the jinmaku.


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