Shinagawa Lighthouse Explained

Shinagawa Lighthouse
品川灯台
Location:Shinagawa, Japan (former)
Meiji Mura (current)
Coordinates:35.3416°N 136.9941°W
Yearlit:5 March 1870
Yeardeactivated:1957
Construction:brick tower
Shape:cylindrical tower with gallery and lantern
Marking:white tower and lantern
Height:9m (30feet)
Lens:4th order Fresnel lens
Characteristic:decorative light

Shinagawa Lighthouse was a lighthouse in Shinagawa (品川第二砲台), south of Tokyo, Japan.

The lighthouse was the third of the four lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It was relocated to the Meiji Mura historical theme park near Nagoya.[1]

Later lighthouses would be built by the English engineer Richard Henry Brunton, until the Japanese would take over lighthouse construction in 1880.[2]

The lighthouse was first lit on 5 March 1870.

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=eLI2jBSjL78C&pg=PA240 Global Change: Mankind-marine Environment Interactions Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi p.240
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA593 "The English engineer Richard Henry Brunton continued Verny's work; starting in 1 880, lighthouses were designed by Japanese architects" in Japan encyclopedia Louis Frédéric p.593