Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang

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

Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang
機張 竹城里倭城
기장 죽성리왜성
Gijang-gun, Busan Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
TypeJapanese castle (Waeseong)
Height4m
Site history
Built1593
Built byKuroda Nagamasa
In use1593–1598
Materialsstone, wood, plaster walls
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Kuroda Nagamasa, Katō Kiyomasa
Waeseong in Jukseong-ri, Gijang
Hangul
기장 죽성리왜성
Hanja
機張 竹城里倭城
Revised RomanizationGijang Jukseong-ri Waeseong
McCune–ReischauerKijang Chuksŏng-ni Waesŏng

This wall-fortress built on the stronghold in the rear coast of the village of Jukseong-ri, was 11,176 pyeongs (pyeong=unit of area in the Joseon period) in area, about 300 m in circumference, 4 m 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.

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