Kameyama Battery Trace

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1-1 Nakanocho | Kameyama Hachimangu Shrine, Shimonoseki 750-0004, Yamaguchi PrefectureMap

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kimitakas
Historical site
As I was at school, I learned about this battery and the attack of Choshu army against foreigners. Now I understood that it was this place. There is no battery anymore, but there is an explanation pa...
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Reviewed on Dec 29, 2019
bakera73
the shimonoseki incident, which bombarded the kameyama artillery and other American merchant ships.
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　The precincts of Kameyama Hachimangu in Shimonoseki, where you can overlook the Kanmon Strait. On the sea side of the precincts overlooking the strait, there was an explanation written with the words "Kameyama Battery Ruins". According to the report, Motoshu Mori, the lord of the Nagato Chofu domain, built a battery in this area to counter foreign ships at the end of the Edo period. This is the Kameyama Fort, and it is said that the Shimonoseki incident was later bombarded by American merchant ships from the Kameyama Fort. It was written that the Shimonoseki incident further developed into the Shimonoseki War. Certainly, ...
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Reviewed on Jan 22, 2023
MS-DANSYAKU
History の Change point があった place の relics
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It is an archaeological site in the precincts of Kameyama Hachimangu Shrine. It is the place of the "Shimonoseki Incident" that bombarded American merchant ships from this battery in 1863. It is a historically meaningful place that triggered the development of the "Shimonoseki War" the following year and led to the later 々 Anti-Bench. However, it is now a battery site, and there are only historic signboards and stone pillars. In addition, there is a main street in front of you, and there is a distance to the sea, so even if you hear "the artillery site", why is it in this place ...
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Reviewed on Jan 21, 2023
k_matsu132
End of the curtain の Relic ですね
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　End of the Edo period. While the crisis was approaching to foreign countries looming to open the country, the Choshu clan set up batteries in various parts of Shimonoseki City. One of them is the Kameyama Battery. The site of the Kameyama Battery was located in the precincts of Kameyama Hachimangu Shrine, which is located on the mountain side of the Karato Market. Kameyama Hachimangu was on a hill overlooking the Kanmon Strait, so it must have been a good place to build a battery. Not to mention the battery, I didn't know the trace of the battery, but there was an explanation board.
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Reviewed on Dec 28, 2022
asaka19691216
The place where there was a artillery that bombarded American merchant ships in the Shimonoseki incident
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The site of the battery in the precincts of Kameyama Hachimangu Shrine in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Motoshu Mori, the 13th feudal lord of the Chofu domain, set up a battery at Kameyama Hachimangu Shrine with a good view as a countermeasure against foreign ships. In the Shimonoseki incident, the Shimonoseki war occurred between the Choshu domain and the British, French, Holland, and the United States of America, because of the bombardment of the American merchant ship navigating the Maseki Strait (current Kanmon Strait) from the Kameyama artillery It is a historic place that has developed into.
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Reviewed on Nov 17, 2020