Gijang Japanese Castle

Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang (機張 竹城里倭城; Gijang Jukseong-ri waseong) is located in Gijang-gun, Busan, South Korea. It is a stone fortress built by the Japanese general, Kuroda Nagamasa who was defending the area against the Korean Joseon army in about June 1593, during the second year of the Imjin War.

This wall-fortress built on the stronghold in the rear coast of the village of Jukseong-ri, was 11,176 pyeongs (pyeong was a unit of area in the Joseon period) in area, about 300 metres in circumference, 4 metres in height, and three-storied. It has been called the Gijang fortress in Japan. It was placed at the strategically important point linking together the Seosaengpo Waeseong fortress in Ulsan, the Hakseong fortress and the Busanjinseong Fortress. Originally, it was built with the stones which had once constituted the Dumopojinseong fortress, so there still remain the footstones of it in a row around the villages in Dumopo.

Today, the surrounding areas of the fortress are used as farming fields, but the stone wall still remains maintaining its original state relatively well.

英語版ウィキペディア「Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang」より引用、CC BY-SA 4.0。

Gijang Japanese Castleは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界4,004位（全5,479件中）、韓国の56件では21位にランクされています。1593年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の37%より古い城です（16世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の437件のひとつ）。韓国が他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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