The old settlement

It is a wallpaper photograph of the night view around the old settlement of Christmas nearness

The old settlement is a general term for the enclaves for foreign residents in Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi Motomachi and whole Sannomiya. Although one corner of the central part of Kobe is occupied here just at the present, it is not developed here yet those days which was able to do the old settlement, That by which enclaves for foreign residents were built in the sands east 3km or more away from Hyogo which was the center in Kobe of those days is a prototype of the present old settlement. The reason the city area and the old settlement in Hyogo separated and were built also seemed to be the purpose of avoiding an unnecessary dispute of Japanese and a foreigner. Although it is Kobe with a stylish impression, it can observe having had remarkable wariness truly those days into which the foreigner went too. The historical backdrop which was able to do the old settlement is followed on the end of a national isolation policy. In 1856 of the Edo period last stage, Japan will contract U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and will open a country to foreign intercourse. The U.S. ship called the Black Ships those days presses Japan for a national isolation policy as stopping and opening a country to foreign intercourse successively. It seems that the Edo Shogunate side threatened by the example in it also had the situation which stops of having finished and opened a country to foreign intercourse in 1856 when especially U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce was contracted since the European and American English-French Allied Forces were attacking China (Shin of those days) by the debt of the Arrow number incident besides the United States. In a treaty, that it was a talk which opens the Hyogo harbor which is the center in Kobe of those days from the firstthe Japan side which disliked friction opens Kobe instead, and the design of British civil engineer J-W and the heart former-builds enclaves for foreign residents around the Kobe harbor in the form united with it -- the beginning of the old settlement offered the Kobe harbor opening of a port and enclaves for foreign residents in 1868. Moreover, apart from this, there is a Chinese settlement and present Nanjing-cho is equivalent to this in Kobe. Also since many foreign countries disliked that that Chinese people did not put into the old settlement lived in the same settlement as China (Shin) which China did not enter into conclusion of a treaty, and was half-colonized by Britain those days, it thinks. Moreover, it is although establishment of prefectural system is performed and present Hyogo Prefecture is born, after becoming the Meiji government,It seems that it also had the background of having justified forcibly by making a place with the Kobe harbor into Hyogo Prefecture since it was blamed from many foreign countries when the treaty was broken, since this opened [ the schedule which opens the Hyogo harbor ] the Kobe harbor to the treaty instead. It is said that the Yokohama harbor also depends on the same reason [ the schedule of the Kanagawa harbor being the Yokohama harbor and having also considered it as Kanagawa Prefecture by establishment of prefectural system ] in a treaty.

Giorgio Armani Boutique	Ferragamo's Christmas decoration	Kobe Nanjing-cho and the Beijing castle	Nakamachi passage Kobe Daimaru
The night view of the old settlement No. 38 hall	Illuminations as Nakamachi	The old settlement and a seashore building	The old settlement and the Mitsui merchant vessel building
The old settlement and a seashore building	The old settlement and Kobe Yusen Building	Old settlement Kobe Bill Sumitomo	With Louis Vuitton Kobe Luminarie
The night view of Kobe Daimaru	Genius gallery