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• Survey Chart for the Yokosuka Shipyard in Sagami Province
• Drawings of the Inubosaki Lighthouse
• Blueprints of the Ueno Museum
• Japan Mint
• Tomioka Silk Mill in Kozuke Province
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• Picture of the Great Shrine at Izumo
• Drawings of the Dajokan Building
• Illustration of New Dajokan Building
• Drawings for construction of the new building housing the ministries of Home Affairs and Finance
• Kyoto Yugi-hyo
• Picture of the Tokyo Headquarters of the Council of Shinto Religion
• Request concerning family registration statistics
• Chart of Bashamichi
• Illustration of the Site of French World Exposition
• Illustration of Industrial World Exposition Site in Austria
• Kobunruishu 1940 Events and Ceremonies Celebration of the Year 2600 of the Japanese Era
• Instruction Manual (Draft) of Prototype Shidenkai
• Instruction of Mechanism of NO. 14 Igo Submarine
• Boshin Gosokui zakki fuzu
• Documents on Japanese zaibatsu liquidation
• Administirative organization of Japan in 1946
• Important cultural property "Kobunroku"

[ Drawings > Survey Chart for the Yokosuka Shipyard in Sagami Province ]

Survey Chart for the Yokosuka Shipyard in Sagami Province

In the first year of Keio (1866), the Tokugawa Shogunate began constructing the Yokosuka Iron Foundry with assistance from France. Among the several Frenchmen who joined in the work was Francois Leons Verny (1837 - 1908), who served as chief engineer and arrived in Japan in the 2nd year of Keiko (1867). The construction continued even after the Tokugawa Shogunate's overthrow in the Meiji Restoration. As jurisdiction passed from the Ministry of Industry to the Navy, the project was renamed the Yokosuka Shipyard, and the first dock was completed in the 4th year of Meiji (1871). This chart is a ground plan drawn by a Frenchman in the initial phase of construction. Verny also assisted the construction of lighthouses at Kannonzaki, Jogashima, Noshimazaki and Shinagawa as well as water pipes at Hashirimizu before returning to France in 1876.

Survey Chart for the Yokosuka Shipyard in Sagami Province Original size : 156cm and 107cm