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The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites of Hagi

―In the hope that the sites will be selected and accepted
by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites ―

	September 18 (Sat.)　～ November 28 (Sun.) , 2010
	Project-based Exhibition Room

In this exhibition, we’d like to introduce how the Hagi domain tried to modernize industry by its own efforts in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate.

	A model of the steam locomotive given to his grandson Okimaru (later, Motoakira Mori) by the feudal lord, Takachika Mori (in the possession of the Hagi Museum)





	Glasses produced in the glass factory of the Nanen Palace of the feudal lord　(Emukai) (in the possession of Kenji Nakajima)





	A model of a wooden cannon gun hand-made by Jihei Nakajima, a scientist in the Hagi domain, without any additional help. (in the possession of Kenji Nakajima)





The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites of Hagi The city of Hagi has been dotted with many industrial heritage sites where the Hagi (the Choshu) domain buckled down to the difficult task of casting cannon guns, building warships and so on. Above all, the Hagi Reverberatory Furnace etc. became Potential World Heritage Sites as the component features of“The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites of Kyushu and Yamaguchi” and have been in the limelight now. It was relevant to the international affairs in the middle of the 19th century that the Hagi domain tried a positive approach to the field of science.The leading members of the Choshu domain got the information that China had been completely defeated by the United Kingdom during the Opium Wars.Therefore, the Hagi domain was threatened with the overwhelming armaments of Western powers, and was obliged to realize the necessity to reinforce the coastal defense. On the other hand, the Hagi domain tried to promote not only production of war materials such as cannon guns, but also various fields of modern technologies such as medical science, glass works, photography, and steam engines.However, under the national isolation policy in the Edo period, they must have had a far greater difficulty in modernizing industry without depending on any Europeans and Americans than we can imagine now.

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■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 20 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.
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