July 18, 2010
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July 18, 2010 Nagasaki Wanderings
After visiting Oura Cathedral we continue bopping around Nagasaki.
Here is a Chinese style temple that we didn't really have time to explore, but the gate was nice.
This is an old part of the city where the foreign community lived. We are going uphill to the right.
These old western style buildings have been restored to their former appearance.
As you can see, they had fallen into slummy disrepair. I liked this old fashioned doorknob.
Mosquitos
The former British Embassy
We have now taken a taxi up into a higher part of the valley that cradles Nagasaki, and we are in search of the remains of the Kameyama Kiln.
There must be a shrine up there.
Roughly translated: Kameyama Kiln was established in 1807, and in 1814 succeeded in producing white porcelain. It produced much fine pottery until it was abandoned in 1865. Kameyama Ware is now extremely rare and highly valued. The back wall of this kiln has been preserved as an important cultural artifact.
There was nothing to indicate the location of the old kiln wall, but there were some shards gracing the window of the small local public kominkan hall.
Hey, I took my own picture!
The taxi is long gone, so we decide to proceed on foot back down into the valley.
The gate of the Zen temple Zenrinji
A Chinese style temple, Fukutokuji
A musical artist was having her picture taken for a CD cover.
Some samples of local pottery, Utsutsugawa Ware. These cups run about$20.
$105 for a tea bowl. I prefer the dishes from the Gagyu Kiln, which are similar to this style, but more refined (and more expensive).
Next was the Nagasaki Cultural Museum, where they had the tools of the famous sawbones, Dr. Siebolt.
The reconstructed steps of the old governmental office - This was not my first trip to this museum, so I have pictures posted in other entries.
On the train home we had a Nagasakian box lunch.
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