Hakoda Bugyosho restored after around 140 years

Hakoda Bugyosho restored after around 140 years

HAKODATE, Japan - The restored building of Hakodate Bugyosho (Magistrate's Office) is unveiled to the media in Hakodate, a port city in southern Hokkaido, on July 16, 2010. The office, built in 1802 at the end of the Edo Period by the Tokugawa shogunate as an outpost to check Russian moves, was destroyed in 1871. Work to restore the office began in June 2006 and cost 2.8 billion yen, and it will open to the public on July 29.

Hakoda Bugyosho restored after around 140 years

Hakoda Bugyosho restored after around 140 years

HAKODATE, Japan - The restored building of Hakodate Bugyosho (Magistrate's Office) is unveiled to the media in Hakodate, a port city in southern Hokkaido, on July 16, 2010. The office, built in 1802 at the end of the Edo Period by the Tokugawa shogunate as an outpost to check Russian moves, was destroyed in 1871. Work to restore the office began in June 2006 and cost 2.8 billion yen, and it will open to the public on July 29. (Kyodo)

The main gate of Shihan school

The main gate of Shihan school

This is the front gate of National Nagasaki Normal School that had just been established in 1874. The former Nagasaki Bugyosho building on the left going through the gate and the newly built building on the right (the former governor’s residence) were the school buildings. In 1872 Tokyo Public Teachers College was established and thereafter teachers colleges were established across Japan. Later all those colleges except for Tokyo Public Teachers College and Tokyo Women’s Teachers College would be placed under prefectural control.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

Viewing the Old Site of Nishi-Yakusho from the Old Site of Daitokuji Temple

Viewing the Old Site of Nishi-Yakusho from the Old Site of Daitokuji Temple

This photo captures the old site of the Nishi-Yakusho of the former Nagasaki Bugyosho office (present-day Prefectural Office) over the Zenza river taken from the old site of Daitokuji Temple. What used to be the Nishi-Yakusho is now a vacant lot. The first Prefectural Office made of wood was built in July 1874. However, the building was destroyed soon by a typhoon on August 20 of the same year. Therefore, it is presumed that this photo was probably taken around 1873 before the construction of the first Prefectural Office building. The big white building on the left is the site of the present-day main office of Eighteen Bank. The area with foliage in the center is where the old Satsuma Domain residence used to be, but the main building is gone. We can see Shinchi Bridge over the Doza river at Ishibashi, where the front gate of Shinchi-Kurasho (warehouse) was. ==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

Former Nagasaki Bugyosho office and Shihan school

Former Nagasaki Bugyosho office and Shihan school

This photo is taken from around Shofukuji Temple. The buildings in the center are the former Nagasaki Bugyosho in Tateyama and National Nagasaki Normal School that had just been built in 1874. This is a rare photo of the original building of Nagasaki Bugyosho. In 2005, the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture was built at this site. Kameyama Shachu established by Sakamoto Ryoma in 1865 is visible in Irabayashi in the back.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)