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English: This plaque is next to Brunton's statue which is near Yokohama stadium. It records all he did for Yokohama in the short time he was there.
Generally the following explanation is indicated to this plaque: Brunton and Yokohama / British civil engineer R.H.Brunton who visited Japan by governmental invitation in the first year of the Meiji era(1868), While building the lighthouse in each place of a Japanese coast with the opening of a country,in Yokohama which was being made into the base of activity over eight years, left the big footprint to modernistic town planning, such as performing the design of a "Nihon-o-do-ri" street or Yokohama Park. 日本語: ブラントンと横浜／明治元年(1868年)政府の招聘により来日した英国人土木技師Ｒ・Ｈ・ブラントンは、開国にともない、日本沿岸各地に灯台を建設する一方、8年間にわたり活動の拠点としていた横浜では、日本大通りや横浜公園の設計を行うなど、近代的なまちづくりに大きな足跡をのこしました。 |
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