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Oura Catholic Church and Nagasaki Harbour

This is Nagasaki Port and Dejima viewed from behind Oura Church. The photograph is part of a stereo-photo series by Wilhelm Burger taken around 1868. The exterior wall of the back of the nave (the alter area) was semicircular at the time of the establishiment, and the pinnacles on the sides of the front of the church were already gone at the time of this photo. The big roof on the right is Myogyoji Temple. The building at Oura No. 11 is visible by the mouth of Oura River.==Date:about 1877, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Wilhelm Burger, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Downstream area of Oura River

This photo is taken halfway up the Oura River looking downstream. The street light was particular to the foreign settlement. The bridge downstream is Benten Bridge and the mountain on the other side of Nagasaki Port is Mt. Inasa. A boat called ‘sanpan’, used to fetch goods from the ships offshore, is moored. The area, ‘Sagarimatsu’, was named after the pine tree on the left. The roof of Myogyoji Temple is barely discernable. The Sagarimatsu area was the foreign settlement’s town center with a bar for foreigners, a restaurant, an inexpensive international hotel, and a shop selling goods for foreigners and until around 1900, the place for locals to socialize.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Viewing Oura Foreign Settlement from Japanese Garden next to Chief Officer’s Residence at Dejima

This is one of the oldest scenic photographs of Nagasaki. It was taken by Milton Miller, who came to Nagasaki in 1862, not long after the opening of Japan's doors in 1859. Miller seems to have visited the residence of the chief factor at the Dejima Dutch Factory. Taken from the garden beside the residence, the photograph provides a distant view of the foreign settlement where the 2nd phase of land reclamation work had reached completion and houses were being built. The column on the left is a flag pole to raise the Dutch national flag. The roof of Myogyoji Temple (temporary British Consulate at the time) is visible. The Glover house has not been built yet. This photograph is also contained in the Bauduin Collection donated to Leiden University.==Date:1861-62?, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number113‐8‐0]

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The Oura foreign settlement and Nagasaki Harbour seen from Don-no-Yama

This photo captures the area around the Oura River as viewed from mid-hill Mt. Donnoyama. At the mouth of the river stands Sagarimatsu Bridge, built in 1869 for the horse trail in the settlement. A bit upstream stands Benten Bridge built during the Bunkyu period (1861-1864) when the land was reclaimed for the Oura settlement. The U-shaped building visible next to Myogyoji Temple on the left hill is the Belle Vue Hotel. On the other side of the port is the Nagasaki Shipyard controlled by the Ministry of Engineering. Since the dormitory for foreign employees built in April 1874, doesn’t show in this photo, it must have been taken before then.==Date:1872, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Oura and Higashiyamate viewed from Minamiyamate

This photo captures Higashiyamate from a high elevation below Glover Garden. The building below is Minamiyamate No. 8 (present-day Minamiyamate District Nagasaki City Historic Preservation Center). The building on the left is the Belle Vue hotel opened at the Bakumatsu period. The western-style building on the hill to the right is the British consulate at Higashiyamate No. 9. The western style buildings in the background center are, up front the residence of the British doctor J.N. Forest at No. 10, the worship hall of the Anglican church at No. 11 to its left, and the white western style building is Higashiyamate No. 12 (former American Consulate) to the left of the latter. The roof on the right is Myogyoji Temple.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Oura Catholic Church seen from the Oura foreign settlement

This photo captures the Oura foreign settlement from the mid hill of Higashiyamate along with Oura Church and the Glover residence in Minamiyamate. Since only the front of the church has scaffolding, construction was almost complete. The building on the right is the bishop house. Myogyoji Temple is below that. The area with the warehouses is Oura-Ko No. 33 (present-day NTT Hospital). Around 1864.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)