Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Yokosuka, Japan

Ninomiya Sontoku , also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō, was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement.

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Jodoji Temple (Jodoji) is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect (Nishi Honganji) whose founder is Shinran, located in Nishiitsumi-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Built by the Kamakura period warlord Hatakeyama Shigetada. During the Muromachi period, he took refuge in Rennyo during the 11th abbot and became a Jodo Shinshu from the Tendai sect. It is the Bodhi Temple of the British navigator William Adams (Japan name: Miura Shohari), who came to Japan in the early Edo period and served as a diplomatic advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu. The current head priest is Michio Itsumi.

Wikipedia: 浄土寺 (横須賀市) (JA)

Kashima Shrine is a shrine located in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, with "Kashima" as its name and a shrine dedicated to the god Takemikazuchi.

Wikipedia: 鹿島神社 (横須賀市) (JA)

Korobokkuru Monogatari (Korobokkuru Monogatari) is a series of fantasy novels by Sato and Arikawa Hiroshi.

Wikipedia: コロボックル物語 (JA)

Mutsu was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style.

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Oguri Kozukenosuke was a statesman of the Tokugawa government in the last stage of the Edo period, and he is often regarded as a rival of Katsu Kaishu. At the time when the power of the Tokugawa government was diminishing, he took the posts of finance magistrate twice, and that of the foreign magistrate once. Also, he decided to construct the first arsenal in Japan, and this decision contributed to the Meiji Restoration.

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François Léonce Verny, was a French officer and naval engineer who directed the construction of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.

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Verney Park is a municipal urban park (neighborhood park) located in Shioiri, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Open all year round.

Wikipedia: ヴェルニー公園 (JA), Website