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Jan Jooss Ten van Rhodenstein (Dutch, 1556?) ~ 1623)

Location: Yaesu Underground Shopping Center (2-2-2 Yaesu Underground Shopping Center outer moat B1F, Yaesu 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

In 1600 (a few months before the battle of Sekigahara), the Dutch ship Leafde, carrying the navigator Jan Jooss Ten and the captain British William Adams (Japanese name: Anjin Miura), drifted to Bungo. The two were heavily used by Ieyasu Tokugawa, the power of time. The place where Jan Jooss Tenyashiki was located was called Jan Jooss Ten's Japanese name `` Yayosu '', which later became `` Yatsushiro Su '' and became `` Yaesu '' It is said that it became.

In addition, on the median strip of Yaesu Street, there is a "Jan Jooss Ten Monument to commemorate the 380th anniversary of Osamu Nichiran". Jan Jooss Ten on the left side of the two compass rings, the Leafde on the right side, the Dutch East India Company mark in the upper center, and the lower center has a sun-shaped mark in the lower center, and the four corners are the waves of the sea. It is a pattern.

By the way, there is a statue of the Leafde next to the Maru Building in front of Tokyo Station.

Philip Franz Baltazar von Siebold (German, 1796-1866)

Location: Akatsuki Park (7-19-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

In 1823, the late Edo period, Siebold came to Japan as a doctor of Dutch trading post in Dejima, Nagasaki. He opened Narutaki Juku on the outskirts of Nagasaki and became a professor of medical treatment and Western medicine (ran studies), and trained many human resources such as Chouei Takano. Siebold, who was deported in the Siebold incident (discovered trying to take out maps of Japan, etc., which are national bans), came back to Japan with his son Alexander and his brother Heinrich as a foreign adviser to the Shogunate at the end of the Tokugawa period. It is not well known that the Siebold brothers remained in Japan and played an active part in Japan in the Meiji era.

It is said that Ina Kusumoto, the daughter of Siebold, the sister sister of the Siebold brothers, opened a maternity hospital in Tsukiji with the cooperation of the two. In that connection, a Siebold statue was set up in Akatsuki Park in Tsukiji, and in August 2020 and 2021, at Tsukiji Honganji Budist Hall, a stage with his younger brother Heinrich as the main character, "Siebolt Father and Sonden-Samurai with Blue Eyes". Was performed. I'd like to look forward to the performance again next year.

Photo (left) shows the main hall of Tsukiji Honganji Temple. The photo (right) shows the first conduction hall with a Budist Hall.