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' five-point fort ') is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido. [1] The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main headquarters of the short-lived Republic of Ezo .
Star fort of the Republic of Ezo Hokkaido Hakodate Hakodate , Hokkaidō 41°47′49.8″N 140°45′24.3″E / 41.797167°N 140.756750°E / 41.797167; 140.
Hakodate, Hokkaido: 1855: Vauban style star fort [6] Reconstructed Tatsuoka Castle: Saku, Nagano Prefecture: 1864-1867: Vauban style star fort [7] One Building remains Shiryōkaku: Hakodate, Hokkaido: 1869: French style bastion fort [8] Ruins Shichiryōkaku: Nanae, Hokkaido? French style bastion fort [8] Ruins
Hakodate (函館市, Hakodate-shi) (formerly written as Hakodadi) is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Oshima Subprefecture. As of January 31, 2024, the city had an estimated population of 239,813 with 138,807 households, and a population density of 354 persons per km² (920 persons per ...
Shiryōkaku has four bastions , and is sometimes known as the "butterfly fort" as opposed to the "star fort". [ 1 ] The fort covers an area of 21,500 m 2 , stretching approximately a hundred metres east to west and seventy metres north to south; the earthworks rise to a height of 3 m with a width of 5.4 m; they are surrounded by a dry moat 0.9 ...
Goryōkaku, Hakodate, Hokkaid ... Old Ninety Six and Star Fort; Castle Pinckney; Fort Prince George; Fort Sumter; Fort Wagner; Fort Walker, also called Fort Welles ...
The star shaped fortress of Goryōkaku. From Aizu, some Bakufu loyalists made their way north to the city of Hakodate, on Hokkaido. There they set up the Republic of Ezo, centered on a government building within the walls of Goryōkaku, a French-style star fortress, which is nonetheless often included in lists and in literature on Japanese castles.
The site of Shinoridate (志苔館跡, Shinoridate ato) in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, is that once occupied by the Shinori Fort or Fortified Residence (as denoted by the tate or date ending). This was the easternmost of the so-called "Twelve Garrisons of Southern Hokkaido", built on the Oshima Peninsula by the Wajin from the fourteenth century.