Shianbashi Thought Bridge

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  Siebold's wife, Taki Kusumoto and Ine

  People connected to Nagasaki that you can see when you pass by during the day

  Shianbashi Street is the busiest downtown area in Nagasaki.
  At night, all you see is twinkling neon lights, but if you pass by during the day, you'll notice that there are various figures carved into the streetlights.
  Kaempfer to Siebold, Ryoma Sakamoto to Kaishu Katsu...
  All of them are people who visited Nagasaki and played an active role, and made Nagasaki history a lively place.
  These objects were installed by the local Motoshikukumachi Neighborhood Association, thinking that they must have visited Maruyama as well.
  The streetlights also have descriptions of the people, so you can easily identify people connected to Nagasaki.

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  The information board has a person's profile

  People connected to Nagasaki that you can see when you pass by during the day

  Shianbashi Street is the busiest downtown area in Nagasaki.
  At night, all you see is twinkling neon lights, but if you pass by during the day, you'll notice that there are various figures carved into the streetlights.
  Kaempfer to Siebold, Ryoma Sakamoto to Kaishu Katsu...
  All of them are people who visited Nagasaki and played an active role, and made Nagasaki history a lively place.
  These objects were installed by the local Motoshikukumachi Neighborhood Association, thinking that they must have visited Maruyama as well.
  The streetlights also have descriptions of the people, so you can quickly identify people connected to Nagasaki.

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  A large gathering of people related to Nagasaki!

  People connected to Nagasaki that you can see when you pass by during the day

  Shianbashi Street is the busiest downtown area in Nagasaki.
  At night, all you see is twinkling neon lights, but if you pass by during the day, you'll notice that there are various figures carved into the streetlights.
  Kaempfer to Siebold, Ryoma Sakamoto to Kaishu Katsu...
  All of them are people who visited Nagasaki and played an active role, and made Nagasaki history a lively place.
  These objects were installed by the local Motoshikukumachi Neighborhood Association, thinking that they must have visited Maruyama as well.
  The streetlights also have descriptions of the people, so you can quickly identify people connected to Nagasaki.

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  A scene from the Maruyama Hana Festival held every November

  Maruyama prostitutes are gorgeous! Make Kamigata cry?

  Maruyama in Nagasaki was known as one of Japan's three major red-light districts, along with Yoshiwara in Edo and Shimabara in Kyoto.
  What made Maruyama's courtesans different from those in other red-light districts was that they were allowed access to Tojin mansions and Dutch mansions (Dejima), and had interactions with Tojin (Chinese) and Dutch people.
  It is said that the costumes of Maruyama prostitutes were so extravagant that it was said at the time that ``the tickets of Edo, the flair of Kyoto, and the costumes of Nagasaki combine''.
  The fact that the costumes were luxurious meant that the country was very prosperous.
  Many people, mainly Nagasaki townspeople and merchants from Kamigata, frequented Maruyama.
  Regarding how prosperous it was, Ihara Saikaku wrote in his ``Nihon Eitaizou'', ``If Nagasaki did not have a place called Maruyama, the gold and silver of the upper region would have come safely.''
  It seems that the merchants from Kamigata returned home after dropping a lot of money into Maruyama.
  
  [Maruyama Hana Festival]
  https://www.at-nagasaki.jp/event/60620/