I had a chance to travel to Kyushu and Hiroshima in end October 2011. The first stop was in Nagasaki.
We visited the Siebold Museum, dedicated to Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold. He was a German doctor who was stationed in Nagasaki by the Dutch East India Company, and is famous for his book "Nippon" which introduced Japan to Europe.
We next made a stop at Glover Park, which used to be the site of houses used by Europeans when they settled in Nagasaki after the opening of the port to foreign trade.
It is the birthplace of Western-style cuisine in Japan.
And there is a statue of Madame Butterfly and the author of the opera, Giacomo Puccini.
Nagasaki is also the site of the one and only Castella Shrine. Castella is a type of Japanese sponge cake, first brought into Japan by the Portuguese at Nagasaki.
Our final stop at Nagasaki was the site of the old Dejima, a man-made island that used to house the European traders at Nagasaki when the Tokugawa Shogunate restricted foreign trade. The area around Dejima has since been reclaimed so it is no longer an island, but the area is preserved as a museum showcasing the buildings and life of the European traders back then.
This was the main gate to Dejima. The island was joined by a bridge to Nagasaki, and access to Dejima was highly restricted.
We visited the Siebold Museum, dedicated to Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold. He was a German doctor who was stationed in Nagasaki by the Dutch East India Company, and is famous for his book "Nippon" which introduced Japan to Europe.
We next made a stop at Glover Park, which used to be the site of houses used by Europeans when they settled in Nagasaki after the opening of the port to foreign trade.
It is the birthplace of Western-style cuisine in Japan.
And there is a statue of Madame Butterfly and the author of the opera, Giacomo Puccini.
Nagasaki is also the site of the one and only Castella Shrine. Castella is a type of Japanese sponge cake, first brought into Japan by the Portuguese at Nagasaki.
Our final stop at Nagasaki was the site of the old Dejima, a man-made island that used to house the European traders at Nagasaki when the Tokugawa Shogunate restricted foreign trade. The area around Dejima has since been reclaimed so it is no longer an island, but the area is preserved as a museum showcasing the buildings and life of the European traders back then.
This was the main gate to Dejima. The island was joined by a bridge to Nagasaki, and access to Dejima was highly restricted.
No comments:
Post a Comment