Tsurugisaki Lighthouse

Tsurugisaki Lighthouse (剱埼灯台, Tsurugisaki tōdai) is a lighthouse located on Cape Tsurugi on the southeastern extremity of the city of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on the southernmost and eastern tip of Miura Peninsula. (On the southernmost western tip of Miura Peninsula stands the Jōgashima Lighthouse.)

Tsurigisaki Lighthouse
Turugi Saki
剱埼灯台
LocationMiura, Japan
Coordinates35°08′25″N 139°40′38″E
Tower
Constructed1871 (first)
Constructionconcrete (foundation), concrete (tower) Edit this on Wikidata
Height16.9 m (55 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Shapeoctagonal tower with balcony and lantern[1]
Light
First lit1925 (current)
Focal height41 m (135 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Lenssecond order Fresnel lens Edit this on Wikidata
Intensity520,000 candela Edit this on Wikidata
Range18 nmi (33 km; 21 mi) Edit this on Wikidata
CharacteristicAl Fl(2+1) WG 30s Edit this on Wikidata
Japan no.JCG-2018[2]

The Tsurugisaki Lighthouse was one of eight lighthouses to be built in Meiji period Japan under the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858, signed by the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa Shogunate. The lighthouse was designed and constructed by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. Brunton constructed another 25 lighthouses from far northern Hokkaidō to southern Kyūshū during his career in Japan.

Cape Tsurugi.

Work began in March 1870. The Tsurugisaki Lighthouse was completed on March 1, 1871, and was designed to protect shipping entering Tokyo Bay via the Uraga Channel, with its light visible as far as the Bōsō Peninsula on the eastern shore of the bay. The original structure was destroyed during the Great Kantō earthquake on September 1, 1923, and was replaced with the current reinforced-concrete structure on July 4, 1925. The lighthouse has been unmanned since 1991.

It is currently maintained by the Japan Coast Guard.

See also

References
  • Brunton, Richard. Building Japan, 1868–1879. Japan Library, 1991. ISBN 1-873410-05-0
  • Pedlar, Neil. The Imported Pioneers: Westerners who Helped Build Modern Japan. Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0-904404-51-X

Notes
  1. Turugi Saki Japan Coast Guard
  2. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Japan: Tōkyō Area". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
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