Goryokaku (Five Point Fort) in Hakodate is a Japanese design of the 1850s, apparently by a man who had studied one book about European fortified cities (!). Note his excellent decision to add an extra ditch between moat and curtain. The original plan included five ravelins but only one was built.
![A screenshot of a dialogue between Socrates and Anytus.
Socrates
Tell me, Anytus, has any of the [blank] wronged you? What makes you so hard on them?
Anytus
No, heaven knows I have never in my life had dealings with any of them, nor would I let any of my people have to do with them either.
Socrates
Then you have absolutely no experience of those persons?
Anytus
And trust I never may.
Socrates
How then, my good sir, can you tell whether a thing has any good or evil in it, if you are quite without experience of it?
Anytus
Easily: the fact is, I know what these people are, whether I have experience of them or not.
Socrates
You are a wizard, perhaps, Anytus; for I really cannot see, from what you say yourself, how else you can know anything about them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gtwso3sumvsvcqyey7ztec4m/bafkreig2kzb56ymqbzgove5o2wavkmwwkcrhmwus5pwskws3qi5zmnqvqu)
