Shirasu Lighthouse

Anmen Strait の Difficult, Baizhou lampstand を Building いた Yan Songzhu Zuoweimen

Original Text

　Hakushu Lighthouse is a lighthouse standing on a rocky reef named "Hakushu" off the coast of Kokura. Shirasu was a difficult place on the north side of the Kanmon Strait, and it was a place where marine accidents occurred frequently since the Edo period. At the end of the Edo period, "Sukezaemon Iwamatsu", a shoya around here, decided to build a lighthouse, and it seems that the first wooden lighthouse was completed in the Meiji era. The honor turret was on the south side of the castle tower in Kokura Castle. There was a detailed explanation board, and the above was written. By the way, "Suke left Iwamatsu ...

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Original Text

　Inside Kokura Castle, there was a building called Shirasu Lighthouse Iwamatsu Honoring Tower on the edge of a hill on the south side of the castle tower. Sukezaemon Iwamatsu, who was a shoya in Ogura, retired from shoya at the end of the Edo period and was appointed to the control of the Ogura domain's maritime goyogakari wreck. At that time, Sukezaemon Iwamatsu suggested building a lighthouse and created the Hakushu lighthouse with private property and donations. It's a building that praises its achievements.

Private fee を investment げての lampstand construction

Original Text

I forgot whether it was Wakamatsu or Kokura before, but I had read about Mr. Iwamatsu's achievement in building a lighthouse at some facility, so I thought it was this when I saw the name and the building. I thought again that he was a person who was more memorable in Kitakyushu than I expected.

Don't forget Sukezaemon Iwamatsu's great achievements.

Original Text

Shirashu Lighthouse Iwamatsu Memorial Tower in Kokura Castle in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. This facility is to honor Sukezaemon Iwamatsu, a shoya of the Ogura Domain in Buzen Province, who built the Shirashu Lighthouse. Although the sea off Kokura is a key point of transportation, there are many reefs and many ships are wrecked, so Sukezaemon Iwamatsu raised private property and donations to make efforts to build it. Unfortunately, he died without seeing the completion, but the following year, the lighthouse was completed ...

Great people の performance をたたえる

Original Text

I found it while walking around Katsuyama Park while watching the cherry blossoms. It's like a turret. When I read it, it was like a monument honoring the achievement of Okina Iwamatsu built Shirasu Lighthouse at his own expense in a difficult place.