NAGASAKI
THE ISLANDS OF JAPAN
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NAGASAKI |
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Nagasaki has always been one of my favorite places in Japan. The city's varied history over the centuries has long intrigued me, and it was here that I spent the New Year's holiday in 1961 during my undergraduate year abroad program at International Christian University in Tokyo.
On this particular visit my digital camera malfunctioned (as it was to again in Hiroshima), leaving me with no pictures of the Dutch Slope area where we spent the morning wandering among the preserved nineteenth century Western-style homes remaining from the period when the city was one of only two open to contact with the outside world shortly after realtions with the outside world were resumed in mid-century. I did get some good shots, however, of Deshima, the artificially-constructed island once in the center of the harbor to which local Dutch residents were confined while in port during those centuries when Japan severely restricted contact with the outside world; much rebuilding and reconstruction has taken place here in an attempt to recapture something of that period in the city's past.
Later in the day I visited the retail shopping area in quest of pictures of "everyday" life and associated activities. We sailed that evening just at sunset which provided a wonderful glow to the passing coastal scenes that I was able to capture "on film".
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