Jogashima Lighthouse

Jogashima Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the island of Jogashima in the city of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, off the southernmost and western tip of Miura Peninsula, dealing with Sagami Bay. It is the fourth oldest western style lighthouse to be constructed in Japan, and the second one oldest surviving to the current. The Jogashima Lighthouse become one in every of 8 lighthouses built in Japan under the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858, signed by using the Bakumatsu duration Tokugawa Shogunate. It is one of the great place.

The lighthouse was designed and constructed with the aid of expatriate French engineer Leonce Verny. Verny built some other three lighthouses round Tokyo Bay, and became also the engineer who built the close by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal during his career in Japan. The Jogashima Lighthouse become finished on September eight, 1870 after the Meiji Restoration, and was initially constructed of brick. The original shape was destroyed at some point of the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923 and became replaced with the present day strengthened-concrete spherical structure on August 1, 1925. In 1928, its light supply was modified from acetylene to electric, greatly increasing its visibility.