Genbao Castle

Genbao Castle become a Sengoku period yamashiro-fashion Japanese citadel placed inside the border vicinity of part of the towns of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture and Nagahama in Shiga Prefecture inside the Hokuriku place of Honshu, Japan. It has been protected with the resource of the essential authorities as a National Historic Site whilst you bear in mind that 1999. Genbao Castle modified into constructed in 1583 on the peak of Mt. Uchinakao 460 meters as the headquarters for Shibata Katsuie sooner or later of the Battle of Shizugatake.

The citadel become constructed with features for each protecting and offensive operations, with the internal bailey at the first-class point on the mountain, protected by using way of earthen ramparts, dry moats and secondary enclosures. It is presumed that there was a tower by using the last basis stones inside the northeastern corner of the internal bailey. Nothing stays of the fort nowadays besides for overgrown remnants of the moats and earthenworks.