The explanation board at the site of Nagasakiya, a station bound for Choichi Dutch trading post, stands at 4-4-10 Nihonbashi Muromachi. It is an important historical site where many astronomers, doctors, and Dutch scholars visited and interacted with each other to learn the latest science and technology and foreign languages during the Edo period, when the isolation policy was taken. (From "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia")
The Nagasakiya building faces south on the front, and the back side (north side) is "Kakotsuki Tau Shinmichi" (Kenkyodo Shindo or Kanetsuto Tangjindo (currently Time Bell Street)). It is presumed that there was a bell tower. Maybe there was a front entrance near the position where the above explanation board stands.
"The bell of Kokumachi can be heard up to red hair (the Netherlands)."
Bronze bells of Kokumachi and preservation destinations (in Jisshi Park)
On June 14, 1859 (1859), "Is it a gunshot ship Matsumachi 2-chome (currently Minatomachi, Chuo-ku [now Akashicho? The author O'age] ) ". Shogun is the birthplace of Dutch studies in Edo. In 1771 (1771), Genpaku Sugita and Junnan Nakagawa met the residence of Ryotaku Maeno and said, "Tarher Anatomia, get on the open sea of the" rudder "to the rudder, to the rudder ship ", I couldn't stop by.
Dutch trading post's trip to Edo-Sanfu was routinely conducted once a year since 1857 (1633), and from 1790 (1790), 166 times every five years, once every four years, until 1850 (1850). In 1850, the inn stopped working, and after the relocation of the gunshot, it changed from an imported goods handling store represented by imported drugs to a store dealing with imported books, guns and other miscellaneous goods, and Nagasakiya changed from "Tang Ginsengza" to "Edo Nagasaki Kaisho". It is said that Genemon, the eleventh head of Nagasakiya, died at headquarters in 1875 (1875).
(Kazuo Katagiri's "Is Edo still a isolation?" Kikkawa Hirobunkan, Seiichi Sakauchi's "Nagasakiya Monogatari" from Ryutsu Keizai University Press)
