Hagi Museum Exhibition THE MEIJI RESTORATION AND HAGI

THE MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF THE 140TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MEIJI RESTORATION

THE SECOND EXHIBITION

THE MEIJI RESTORATION AND HAGI

Nov.15, 2008 ～ Jan.7, 2009

Project-based Exhibition Room

The Hagi Museum
355 Horiuchi, Hagi City, Yamaguchi 758-0057

　The highly influential domains in the southwest of Japan, such as Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa, and Hizen produced efficient persons who played a leading part in the Meiji Restoration. Above all, the place of Hagi in the Choshu domain is called “the Place of Quickening of the Meiji Restoration”. However, we should take notice of persons and things that played important roles behind them.
In this exhibition we’d like to introduce such persons and things unfamiliar to us, that is to say an inside history of the Meiji Restoration.

1　People in Hagi who attempted to defend the castle town from the Black Ships

　In Hagi even women and children joined in the work of building mounds along Kikugahama beach to protect the town against the menace of the Black Ships, while in Shimonoseki Shinsaku Takasugi was organizing the modern militia named “the Extraordinary Corps”.

( Picture of people building mounds to defend the town )

2 　The remaining years of the warship which played an active part in the Choshu war

　There was a passenger ship named “the Otento-Maru” (the Heiin-Maru), which entered service in the Osaka-Hakata run in the Meiji period. It was the warship made in the UK that Shinsaku Takasugi once went on board in the Choshu war.

( Picture of the Otento-Maru put in commission as a passenger ship )


*3　People in Hagi who were actively engaged in the Boshin war*
It was Raizo Narasaki, military officer, and Hisataro Yamagata, captain of the warship “the Teibo-Maru”, and others who fought bravely on the front line of the war. They were so excellent warriors as to be said to have been equal to Commander, Aritomo Yamagata and Commander, Akiyoshi Yamada.


( Battle flag with a chrysanthemum crest used by Raizo Narasaki )	( Picture of brave warriors who were active in the Boshin war )

4 The cultivation of the citrus orange began in concurrence with the Hagi Revolt.

　Samurai in Hagi lost their employment after the Meiji Restoration. It was Takamasa Obata who groped for a new way of clanspersons’ living and proposed the cultivation of the citrus orange. At that particular time, the disaffected clanspersons in Hagi rose in revolt.

( Takamasa Obata)

■Opening Hours	9:00～17:00 （Last admission 16:30）
■Open Everyday
■Addmission fees	Adults-500yen　 College,Senior High School University Students-300yen Primary & Junior High School Students-100yen 20% discount for a group consisting of at least 30 people and disabled people.
■One-year Pass	Adults-1500yen　 College,Senior High School University Students-900yen Primary & Junior High School Students-300yen
■Parking Space is available for 66 cars and 8 buses.
■Enquiries	The Hagi Museum　TEL:0838-25-6447 http://www.city.hagi.lg.jp/hagihaku/

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