Nagasaki 長崎 グラバー園、大浦天主堂、ランタンフェスティバルの準備等
2015/2/11
Nagasaki (長崎市 Nagasaki-shi?) (About this sound listen (help·info)) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a center of Portuguese and other European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Its name means long cape.
During World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack.[1]
As of January 1, 2009, the city has an estimated population of 446,007 and a population density of 1,100 persons per km². The total area is 406.35 km².
Glover Garden (グラバー園 Gurabāen?) is a park in Nagasaki, Japan built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.
It is located on the Minamiyamate hillside overlooking Nagasaki harbor. It was built by Hidenoshin Koyama of Amakusa island and completed in 1863. It has been designated as an Important Cultural Asset. As the house and its surroundings are reminiscent of Puccini's opera, it is also known as the Madame Butterfly House. Statues of Puccini and diva Miura Tamaki, famed for her role as Cio-Cio-san, stand in the park near the house. This house was also the venue of Glover's meetings with rebel samurai particularly from the Chōshū and Satsuma domains.
Thomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.
Ōura Church (大浦天主堂 Ōura Tenshudō?) is a Roman Catholic church in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853. It is also known as the Church of the 26 Japanese Martyrs. It was for many years the only western-style building declared a national treasure, and is said to be the oldest church in Japan.
長崎市（ながさきし）は、九州の北西部に位置する都市で、長崎県の県庁所在地である。国から中核市に指定されている。
古くから、外国への玄関口として発展してきた港湾都市である。江戸時代は国内唯一の貿易港出島を持ち、ヨーロッパから多くの文化が入ってきた。外国からの文化流入の影響や、坂の多い街並みなどから、日本国内の他都市とは違った景観を保持している。また、県下最大の人口を持つ長崎県の中心都市である。
市域面積の13.1%である市街地に人口の約78%が住み、市街地の人口密度は、7,900人/km²と過密である。
長崎ランタンフェスティバル（ながさきランタンフェスティバル）は、毎年冬に長崎県長崎市で行われるイベント。
長崎に住む華人が旧正月を祝う祭りを長崎新地中華街で行っていた春節祭という祭りが1994年より長崎市全体でのイベントとなり、中華街以外の場所にも中国提灯（ランタン）が飾られるようになった。
旧暦の1月1日を初日として約2週間、新地中華街を中心に1万数千個のランタンや点灯式のオブジェが飾られる。暦の関係で、年ごとに開催期間は前後に移動する（2014年は1月31日～2月14日）。
2013年には皇帝パレードに長崎市出身の金子昇が参加し、期間中に過去最高の101万人が来場した。
Japan Travel: Glover Garden stunning view of Nagasaki Harbour Nagasaki city, Kyushu 02 Moopon
Japan Travel: Glover Garden stunning view of Nagasaki Harbour Nagasaki city, Kyushu 02 Moopon
Commanding a stunning view of Nagasaki Harbour from its position on top of the hill of Minami-Yamate, this romantic area retains the atmosphere of a foreign settlement.
Glover Garden is an open air museum. It exhibits mansions of former Western residents of Nagasaki such as British merchants Frederick Ringer and William Alt and the former residence of Thomas Glover, a Scottish merchant. It is placed on the hill where Western merchants settled down after the end of Japan's era of seclusion (sakoku) in the second half of the 19th century.
The exhibited buildings A nice panorama of the city can be enjoyed from the garden.
Access Information:
Glover Garden is a five minute walk from Ouratenshudo-shita tram station on the line number 5 with a cost of 120 yen.The entrance is adjacent the Oura Catholic Church.
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Walking trip around Glover Garden in Nagasaki, Japan.
Glover Garden is an open air museum in Nagasaki that exhibits mansions of several of the city's former foreign residents and related buildings. It is located on the hill where Western merchants settled down after the end of Japan's era of seclusion in the second half of the 19th century.
The main attraction of the garden is the Former Glover House, the oldest Western-style wooden building in Japan. Thomas Glover (1838-1911) was a Scottish merchant who moved to Nagasaki after the opening of its port to foreign trade in 1859. He later assisted some of the revolutionaries who would eventually overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Meiji Restoration. Active in various industries, including shipbuilding and mining, Glover features prominently in the early history of Japan's industrialisation. (japan-guide.com)
Gregor Townsend Scotland Arrival Press Conference In Nagasaki, Japan - Rugby World Cup
Opening press conference with Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend ahead of the World Cup in Japan.
Flanker Jamie Ritchie is set to miss Scotland's World Cup opener with Ireland but Gregor Townsend admitted he is glad not to be dealing with a more serious casualty list.
Edinburgh forward Ritchie was forced to delay his departure to Japan after suffering a broken cheekbone against Georgia at Murrayfield last week.
He underwent surgery in Edinburgh to have a titanium plate fitted before flying out to meet up with the rest of his team-mates at the Dark Blues' training camp in Nagasaki.
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The art of Japanese whisky making
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Japanese whisky is winning accolades from around the world, often beating the Scottish brands it originally set out to emulate.
A 25 year old Yamazaki in a sherry cask, fetches thousands of dollars and now bar owners say the whisky has such a high reputation that the demand for good Japanese whisky is outstripping supply.
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The Suntory distillery in Yamazaki, near the ancient capital of Kyoto, is where it all began, at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1924, as legend goes, when the first drop of made-in-Japan malt whisky was created.
The spirit of Japanese 'monozukuri' (production) is also evident in whisky – extremely meticulous with detail and sparing no effort, and closely scrutinising its quality during production. These two elements become evident in the characteristics of Japanese whisky, and I think it is a combination of this together with Japanese culture, which everyone in the world evaluates highly, says Shinji Fukuyo, Suntory's Chief Blender
Surrounded by bamboo groves, pastoral hills and crystal clear ground water is a dim storage room filled wall-to-wall with 3,000 wooden barrels. Here sleeps, for years, sometimes decades, Japan's prized whisky.
What we value most is the production of different malt whiskies. We produce different malt whisky here at this place, and then it goes to the distillery's pot still, and we use different types of pot stills. Then it goes to casks, for which we have different types of casks, and even for maturing we use different storage conditions. We have three different storages for maturing. And so we have all these different processes to create many different malt whiskies, so that when the blender chooses one from the many different kinds of malt whisky, he can create a blend that can reach far and wide around the world, says Taichi Sasaki, Suntory's whisky specialist.
Suntory's success story echoes that of others from Japan Inc., such as automaker Toyota Motor Corp. and musical instrument manufacturer Yamaha Corp., companies that followed in the tracks of Western pioneers but ended up doing what they did quite well, if not outdoing them.
Shinjiro Torii, the founder of the Japanese beverage maker, wanted to introduce Scotch to Japan. At first, he failed. He gradually adapted the methods of whisky-making to make whisky that was more palatable for Japanese. The company name comes from sun combined with his last name.
Besides the ground water, a key element, and this nation's dynamic seasonal changes, believed to deepen whisky flavours during the years of aging, the careful craftsmanship Japanese workers are known for is also believed to be a plus.
It was always easy to blend whisky flavours in Scotland to concoct great products because, given its history, there were so many distilleries. But Suntory had to develop various methods on its own to produce a whole array of whisky. It used various temperatures and combination of yeasts for fermentation, which is carried out in huge vats, ahead of distilling and aging.
Suntory also came up with more shapes for the huge metallic containers used for distilling, called pot stills. The curved, pot-bellied and bending pot stills quicken or delay the process, producing nuances of flavours. The fermented beige liquid turns to vapour with heat, and then gets distilled to a colourless liquid that smells almost like antiseptic.
That then gets placed in various kinds of barrels, or casks, in the huge storage area, for the next process, aging. Not a single nail is used in the casks. Strips of old wood are held together by tightened metal rings. It's only with aging that whisky gains its colour and personality.
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Japan Trip: Glover Garden former Western residents Nagasaki city, Kyushu
Japan Trip: Glover Garden former Western residents
Nagasaki city, Kyushu
Commanding a stunning view of Nagasaki Harbour from its position on top of the hill of Minami-Yamate, this romantic area retains the atmosphere of a foreign settlement.
Glover Garden is an open air museum. It exhibits mansions of former Western residents of Nagasaki such as British merchants Frederick Ringer and William Alt and the former residence of Thomas Glover, a Scottish merchant. It is placed on the hill where Western merchants settled down after the end of Japan's era of seclusion (sakoku) in the second half of the 19th century.
The exhibited buildings A nice panorama of the city can be enjoyed from the garden.
Access Information:
Glover Garden is a five minute walk from Ouratenshudo-shita tram station on the line number 5 with a cost of 120 yen.The entrance is adjacent the Oura Catholic Church.
Japan Trip: Glover Garden former Western residents
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Nagasaki 長崎 グラバー園、大浦天主堂、ランタンフェスティバルの準備等(Film look)
2015/2/11
Nagasaki (長崎市 Nagasaki-shi?) (About this sound listen (help·info)) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a center of Portuguese and other European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Its name means long cape.
During World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack.[1]
As of January 1, 2009, the city has an estimated population of 446,007 and a population density of 1,100 persons per km². The total area is 406.35 km².
Glover Garden (グラバー園 Gurabāen?) is a park in Nagasaki, Japan built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.
It is located on the Minamiyamate hillside overlooking Nagasaki harbor. It was built by Hidenoshin Koyama of Amakusa island and completed in 1863. It has been designated as an Important Cultural Asset. As the house and its surroundings are reminiscent of Puccini's opera, it is also known as the Madame Butterfly House. Statues of Puccini and diva Miura Tamaki, famed for her role as Cio-Cio-san, stand in the park near the house. This house was also the venue of Glover's meetings with rebel samurai particularly from the Chōshū and Satsuma domains.
Thomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.
Ōura Church (大浦天主堂 Ōura Tenshudō?) is a Roman Catholic church in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853. It is also known as the Church of the 26 Japanese Martyrs. It was for many years the only western-style building declared a national treasure, and is said to be the oldest church in Japan.
長崎市（ながさきし）は、九州の北西部に位置する都市で、長崎県の県庁所在地である。国から中核市に指定されている。
古くから、外国への玄関口として発展してきた港湾都市である。江戸時代は国内唯一の貿易港出島を持ち、ヨーロッパから多くの文化が入ってきた。外国からの文化流入の影響や、坂の多い街並みなどから、日本国内の他都市とは違った景観を保持している。また、県下最大の人口を持つ長崎県の中心都市である。
市域面積の13.1%である市街地に人口の約78%が住み、市街地の人口密度は、7,900人/km²と過密である。
長崎ランタンフェスティバル（ながさきランタンフェスティバル）は、毎年冬に長崎県長崎市で行われるイベント。
長崎に住む華人が旧正月を祝う祭りを長崎新地中華街で行っていた春節祭という祭りが1994年より長崎市全体でのイベントとなり、中華街以外の場所にも中国提灯（ランタン）が飾られるようになった。
旧暦の1月1日を初日として約2週間、新地中華街を中心に1万数千個のランタンや点灯式のオブジェが飾られる。暦の関係で、年ごとに開催期間は前後に移動する（2014年は1月31日～2月14日）。
2013年には皇帝パレードに長崎市出身の金子昇が参加し、期間中に過去最高の101万人が来場した。
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In 2014 the Scottish samurai awards recognise Lord Elgin with a Shogun award. The highest award the academy can bestow on an individual.
Ronnie Watt 8th Dan, OBE ORS presented the award at Lord Elgin's home on the 28th of September 2014. In the company of some close relatives Lord Elgin was entertained by Ronnie who had arranged a small intimate display of karate with some of his NKF squad members from across Scotland in the reception of Lord Elgin's residence at Broomhall.
LORD ELGIN. (Andrew Douglas Alexander Thomas Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine.)
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[WW8] グラバーの丘/阿部勇一/ Glover's Hill/by Yuichi Abe
[木管8重奏] グラバーの丘/阿部勇一
[Woodwinds Octet] Glover's Hill by Yuichi Abe
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作品について / Program notes:
この曲は昨年秋、長崎のグラバー園を訪れた時の印象を描いたものです。
第1楽章はグラバー邸で私が感じたノスタルジーが主題です。
グラバーは幕末に長崎で活躍した英国商人で、その邸宅には坂本龍馬など幕末の志士も訪れたといいます。趣のある部屋とそこに展示されているグラバー愛用の品々には、激動の時代を生きた人々の面影が映し出されているようでした。グラバーは生涯を日本で閉じますが、この丘の上の邸宅から海を見つめ、時に望郷の念にかられたことでしょう。
第2楽章は昔の長崎港の賑わいをイメージした曲です。
グラバー邸の庭からは長崎港が一望できます。江戸時代の鎖国体制にあっても幕府公認の国際貿易港であった長崎港。行き交う船、溢れる物資と商人、さぞ活気があったことでしょう。そんな港の風景を想像して作曲しました。
（阿部 勇一）
This was inspired by my visit to Glover Garden in Nagasaki, Japan.
The first movement depicts nostalgic feelings from the Glover House.
Thomas Blake Glover was a Scottish merchant who built his home on Minami-Yamate hill in 1863. The famous young patriot Ryoma Sakamoto who aspired to overthrow the Edo-period Shogunate and sought to study about the West is said to have had stayed there. This surviving and unchanged historic place and Glover’s mementoes reflect the atmosphere of the people who lived during one of the most significant and turbulent eras of Japan. Although Glover passed away in Japan, I can imagine him standing on the hilltop looking at the magnificent ocean view with sentimental feelings.
The second movement depicts the prosperity of Nagasaki Port during the time of national isolation.
The garden of Glover’s house overlooks the Nagasaki Port. During the Edo era, a national isolation policy existed and trade was put under the management of the Shogunate. The Nagasaki Port continued to prosper as the only gateway to the world during this period. The town of Nagasaki was brimming with enthusiasm from those dreaming of a new dawn for Japan.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire, or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, Japanese Navy) was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed after the dissolution of the IJN.The Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operation from the fleet. It was the primary opponent of the Western Allies in the Pacific War.
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Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.
From 1943 to 1946 he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a group leader for the Manhattan Project. He found in April 1944 that Thin Man, the proposed plutonium gun-type nuclear weapon, would not work because of the presence of plutonium-240 impurities.
Born in Tivoli, near Rome, Segrè studied engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza before taking up physics in 1927. Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome in 1932 and worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys. From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Palermo. After a visit to Ernest O. Lawrence's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, he was sent a molybdenum strip from the laboratory's cyclotron deflector in 1937, which was emitting anomalous forms of radioactivity. After careful chemical and theoretical analysis, Segrè was able to prove that some of the radiation was being produced by a previously unknown element, named technetium, which was the first artificially synthesized chemical element that does not occur in nature.
In 1938, Benito Mussolini's fascist government passed anti-Semitic laws barring Jews from university positions. As a Jew, Segrè was now rendered an indefinite émigré. At the Berkeley Radiation Lab, Lawrence offered him a job as a research assistant. While at Berkeley, Segrè helped discover the element astatine and the isotope plutonium-239, which was later used to make the Fat Man nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. On his return to Berkeley in 1946, he became a professor of physics and of history of science, serving until 1972. Segrè and Owen Chamberlain were co-heads of a research group at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory that discovered the antiproton, for which the two shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Segrè was also active as a photographer and took many photos documenting events and people in the history of modern science, which were donated to the American Institute of Physics after his death. The American Institute of Physics named its photographic archive of physics history in his honor.