On November 10, 2018, a total of eight members of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent and the volunteer guide group "Tokyo City Guide Club" to which I belong, climbed the Edo Castle Ishigaki quarry "Usami no Nakoyama". Was. (This is scheduled to be reported in January as the third installment.)
After the descent, Anjin Miura (William Adams) near Ito Station visited "Anjin Memorial Park", which is said to have built a Western-style ship.
Anjin received a mansion in Edo Nihonbashi, with the daughter of village headman Magome Kageyu in Nihonbashiodenmacho as his wife, and has a strong connection with Nihonbashi, Joseph and Susanna. In 1598, he headed to Orient with Jan Jooss Ten on the Leafde and drifted to Usuki City, Oita Prefecture with 24 crew members. Ieyasu Tokugawa highly evaluated Anjin Miura's ability and recruited him as a political and diplomatic adviser. In addition to the residence in Nihonbashi, he was treated with a territory of 250 stones to Hemi Village, Miura Peninsula. The name of Anjin is based on the fact that the pilot was called Anjin at that time.
From 1604 to 11, at the order of Ieyasu, the head of the Uraga Navy, Shogen Mukai, a ship carpenter and Adams used a ship carpenter from Ito to build Japan's first Western-style sailing ship at the mouth of the Matsukawa River (the junction of the Karato River). We built 80 tons and surveyed the coast on this ship.
The place considered to be a shipyard is near the Anjin Memorial Park.
I stood with my friends in a place presumed to be a shipyard. It's a frank impression that it's smaller than I imagined.
In order to commemorate the launch of the construction of a Western-style sailing ship, Ito City holds an Anjin Festival every year on August 10 and holds a large fireworks display. I went to see it last year, but it was a great crowd.
