博多千年門

This guide to Hakata's old southern gate in Fukuoka starts on a February night in 1559, when a force under a local lord marched on the fortified merchant city and its gates gave way from within. A Jesuit missionary's account and the fallout that followed, a governor killed, a clan driven out, and a city forced to rebuild its defenses, set up the moat and wall you're standing beside. It follows how Hakata answered that breach, and what the reconstructed gate over your head represents about the boundary it replaced.