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The fort was built by the Tokugawa shogunate, he ordered Takeda Ayasaburō to design the fort for the purpose of protecting Tsugaru Strait. [3] It became the capital of the Republic of Ezo, a state that existed only in 1869. It was the site of the last battle of the Boshin War between the Republic and the Empire of Japan. The fighting lasted ...
Ainu hilltop fort or chashi; the name is derived from the Ainu terms for "sand" (ota) and "whale" (funbe) [6 42°49′32″N 143°50′34″E / 42.82542292°N 143.8428036°E / 42.82542292; 143.8428036 ( Otafunbe Chashi
Hokkaido was formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso. [4] Although Japanese settlers ruled the southern tip of the island since the 16th century, Hokkaido was primarily inhabited by the Ainu people. [5] In 1869, following the Meiji Restoration, the entire island was annexed, colonized and renamed Hokkaido by Japan.
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
The early Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries described the chashi he encountered in eastern Hokkaidō in 1643: [3]. These forts were made as follows: on the mountain on which they were placed was a small road steep to climb, and round on the four sides palisades were placed of the height … of 1½ man's length; within this stood two or three houses.
Hakodate (like other parts of around Hokkaido) was originally populated by the Ainu. The name "Hakodate" may have originated from an Ainu word, "hak-casi" ("shallow fort"). Another possibility is that it means "box" or "building" in Japanese which refers to the castle built by the Kono (Kano) clan in the fifteenth century. [2]
Shiryōkaku (四稜郭) (literally, "four-point fort") is a fort in the city of Hakodate in southern Hokkaidō, Japan. It was constructed in April 1869, during the Battle of Hakodate , three kilometres to the northeast of Goryōkaku by two hundred soldiers of the former Tokugawa shogunate and a hundred local villagers, likely under the ...
Tatsuoka Castle (龍岡城, Tatsuoka-jō) was a Bakumatsu period pentagonal "star fort" located in what is now part of the city of Saku, Nagano prefecture.It was the primary fortress of Tatsuoka Domain, ruled by the Ogyū-Matsudaira clan.