Glover Kebochi Glover Family Cemetery
City designated historic site
scottishThomas Blake Glover came to Nagasaki in 1859. In 1861, he established the Glover Company and engaged in trade, shipbuilding, coal mining, tea manufacturing, and other businesses, contributing to the progress of modernization in Japan. On the other hand, he supported clans aiming for political reform (Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa) by selling weapons, ammunition, battleships, etc., and was deeply involved in the political situation as the era changed from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. I was involved. After 1897 he moved to Tokyo and died in 1911. His body was cremated in Tokyo, and a funeral was held in Nagasaki in December of the same year. Part of the remains of his wife Tsuru, who was buried at Oura Taiheiji Temple in 12, are also kept here.
Next to it is ``Kuraba''.There is a tombstone with the inscription ``Grave of the House'', where Glover's eldest son Tomisaburo Kuraba, who committed suicide on August 1945, 8, just after the end of World War II, and his wife Waka, who died in 26, are buried here. I am. Tomisaburo Kuraba was the first person in Japan to carry out trawling, a type of bottom trawling, and also created one of Japan's leading illustrated encyclopedias of fishes, the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Western and Southern Japan's Fishes (also known as the Glover Fishing Book). , was active in Nagasaki.
Basic Information
Designated category | City designated historic site |
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Designated date | August 16, 6 |
Location | Sakamoto International Cemetery, 1-2 Sakamoto, Nagasaki City |
owner | Nagasaki |
Link URL | Tourist information for this facility |