Goryōkaku
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Key facts
- Military installation.name
- Goryōkaku
- Military installation.native_name
- 五稜郭
- Military installation.partof
- Boshin War
- Military installation.nearest_town
- Hakodate
- Military installation.country
- Japan
- Military installation.built
- 1866
- Military installation.image
- Hakodate Goryokaku Panorama 1.JPG
- Military installation.caption
- Goryōkaku viewed from Goryōkaku Tower
- Military installation.image2
- Hakodate Magistrate's Office 1868.png
- Military installation.caption2
- Governmental hall of the Republic of Ezo
- Military installation.type
- Star fort
- Military installation.image3
- GoryokakuPlanLarge.jpg
- Military installation.caption3
- 19th century map of Goryōkaku
- Military installation.builder
- Takeda Ayasaburō
- Military installation.pushpin_map
- Japan
- Military installation.battles
- Boshin War
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is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido. The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main headquarters of the short-lived Republic of Ezo.
==History== Goryōkaku was designed in 1855 by Takeda Ayasaburō, a Rangaku scholar. He studied the fortified cities of Europe in the early modern period to design a fort that could protect against battles using guns and cannons. It took nearly seven years for the construction. The fortress was completed in 1866, two years before the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate. It is shaped like a five-pointed star. This allowed for greater numbers of gun emplacements on its walls than a traditional Japanese fortress, and reduced the number of blind spots where a cannon could not fire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goryōkaku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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