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A picture of the castle and castle town that the Edo Shogunate ordered the daimyo to create and submit,aggregating military information such as the buildings inside the castle, the height of the stone wall, the width of the moat and the water depth, etc., it also details the location and shape of the castle town and the mountain river.
Profile : Matsumae Castle
| Location | Matsumae Cho, Hokkaido |
| Also known as | Fukuyama Castle (originally called Fukuyama Castle, but popular named as Matsumae Castle to prevent confusion with a Bingo-Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Prefecture) |
| Type of castle | flatland |
| Mountain's name | ー |
| Elevation | ー |
| Condition | reconstructed main keep |
| Designation | National Important Historical Properties（Main gate) National Spescial Historic Sites |
| Year built | 1855 |
| Abolished | 1874 |
| Castle lord | Matsumae Yoshihiro |
| Refurbishment lord | Matsumae Takahiro |
adapted from "Classical Japanese National Data Set" (Kokubunken Collection)
The family crest was originally created from the pattern that the emperor and the royal family put on the kimono, and the pattern was made into a fixed pattern, and the one attached to his own oxcart is said to be the beginning of the family crest. The warlords drew large crests on the flag-fingers, used to distinguish enemy views on the battlefield, and used by the generals to determine which warlords were active and how much.
Matsumae Castle admission
admission fee : 500yen(above high school students) 360yen(above Elementary school students)
admission time :
(mid April -mid December) : am9-pm5
closing period : during winter (mid December - mid April ) reference official site (japanese)
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Western military style was also introduced, with seven Yaguras and a total of 37 cannons.
