Shinagawa Lighthouse

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Shinagawa Lighthouse
品川灯台
Shinagawa Lighthouse, now in Meiji Mura.
Location Shinagawa, Japan (formerly)
Meiji Mura (current)
Coordinates 35°36′0″N 139°44′0″E / 35.60000°N 139.73333°E / 35.60000; 139.73333
Year first lit 5 March 1870
Height 5.8 meters, 16 meters above sea level
Intensity 100

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

The lighthouse was the third of the 4 lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It has now been relocated at the Meiji Mura near Nagoya.[1]

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

Notes

  1. ↑ Global Change: Mankind-marine Environment Interactions Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi p.240
  2. ↑ "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
Early Meiji lighthouses
(Léonce Verny)
Later Meiji lighthouses
(“Brunton’s Children”)
Taisho period lighthouses
Modern lighthouses


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