It looks glasses. So we call "Megane-bashi (Glasses bridge)" like that.
Nagasaki city, maybe you know this city, is famous that it has oldest the Megane-bashi (Glasses bridge).
http://visit-nagasaki.com/spots/detail/216 (Nagasaki city official announce for Megane-bashi in English)
眼鏡橋です。
遠目からですと川に反射した部分と実物を見分けられませんでした。とても綺麗な円を描いていました。
美しいです。
This picture was taken in this place.
This is lighthouse for islands in Seto inland sea.
Look this map.
限界まで近づいて眼鏡橋の写真を撮りました。
この灯台がある場所で撮影しました。
瀬戸内海にある島から移築されたものです。
Seto inland sea has many islands.
If you established a big lighthouse, it doesn't work.
They established a small lighthouse like that each islands for Russo-Japanese War.
It made in only 3 months.
日露戦争のためにたった3ヶ月で作られた灯台だそうです。
小さいですが、確かに大小様々な島々が浮かぶ瀬戸内海では、大きい灯台1つ作るより、小さい灯台を作り海を照らす方が効率が良さそうですね。
しかし、4, 50年前まで鎖国していた国が、ロシアと戦争するに到るまで発展するとは改めて驚きです。パワーを感じます。
Anyway, This is view on the Megane-bashi.
こちらが眼鏡橋の上です。
This Megane-bashi is from Yamagata prefecture.
この眼鏡橋は山形県から移築されたものです。
Meiji-mura museum collect Meiji-period things from all over Japan.
Before Meiji period, we call Edo period, was closed to foreign countries.
Chinese and Netherlands were only can trade at Dejima in Japan.
Japan was closed it has many reasons.
One of the reason is they were afraid Christian missionaries.
Sometimes missionaries are closely related with colonies. We didn't want to be colony.
And some Christians didn't want to support Shogun (General of top in Japan).
Before Edo period about 450 hundreds years ago, Samurais battled each other in Japan who want to be the top.
But Christians think "Shogun is not the top. Top is the god."
This thinking wasn't good for Shogun. So they prohibited believe their faith.
I'll keep writing about Meiji-mura museum and Meiji period. See you!
明治村は日本中から明治時代の建築物を移築しており、しばしばドラマ撮影の舞台にもなっています。
写真を撮りすぎて書ききれないので、ゆっくり続きを書いていこうと思います。
