Tsukiji Enclave for Foreign Residents 築地外国人居留地跡 Mystery Cache

The listed coordinates indicate an explanation board of the remains of the Tsukiji enclave for foreign residents. The cache is not hidden at the listed coordinates.

In 1858, the Edo Shogunate concluded treaties of mutual commerce with the United States and other four countries. The treaties provided that five ports would be open to foreign trade, and Edo (Tokyo) and Osaka would be open to foreign residents. In Tokyo, the opening to foreign residents took effect during the first year of the new Meiji government in 1868, and the enclave was located in the present Akashi-cho area.

• Although the leather shoes at the time were mostly military shoes, many foreigners began to live, and the demand for daily wearing leather shoes increased. There is a monument of "the birthplace of shoes industry" in the place where Katsuzo Nishimura, one of the pioneers of shoes industry, started manufacturing leather shoes in 1870 [A].
• The Tsukiji enclave became home to missionaries, physicians, teachers and other professionals, and many churches and schools were opened. Many Christian-affiliated schools originated and settled in the Tsukiji enclave, and there are several stone monuments commemorating school foundings in this area [B-H].
• Keio Gijuku has different circumstances. Rangaku school which Fukuzawa Yukichi opened in daimyo’s spare residence of Nakatsu Domain in Tsukiji Teppouzu in 1858 (before the enclave was made) is the origin of Keio Gijuku [ I ]. This daimyo’s spare residence of Nakatsu Domain is also the place where “Kaitai Shinsho (New Text on Anatomy)” was born [J].
• There is a monument of "the birthplace of fingerprint research" at the dwellings of Henry Faulds who submitted the world's first paper on scientific fingerprinting to the British scientific journal Nature from Japan in 1880 [K].
• The history of the customs at the port of Tokyo dates back to 1867 when Tokyo Unjosho was established in Tsukiji Teppouzu by the Edo Shogunate [L]. Nearby there is a stone monument of "the birthplace of telegraph service" commemorating the launch of telegraph service between the Yokohama court and the Tokyo Tsukiji Unjsho in 1869 [M].

• 当時の革靴は軍靴中心でしたが､多くの外国人が居住するようになり､日常履く革靴の需要が高まっていました。明治3年（1870年）、製靴業の先駆者の一人である西村勝三が革靴の製造工場を開始した地に「靴業発祥の地」の碑があります [A]。
• 築地居留地には、海外からの宣教師・医師・教師などの知識人が居住し、教会や学校などを数多く開いて教育を行っていました。このため、築地居留地で発祥・開設されたキリスト教系の学校も多く、発祥を記念した石碑が数多く建てられています [B-H]。
• 慶應義塾は事情が異なり、居留地ができる前、安政5年（1858年）に福沢諭吉が築地鉄砲洲にあった中津藩の中屋敷内に開いた蘭学塾が源流です [ I ]。この中津藩中屋敷は、解体新書が生まれた場所でもあります [J]。
• 明治13年（1880年）に科学的指紋法に関する世界最初の論文を英国の科学雑誌Natureに日本から投稿したヘンリー・フォールズの住居跡に「指紋研究発祥の地」の碑があります [K]。
• 慶応3年（1867年）、江戸幕府により税関業務等を行う運上所が築地に設置されたのが東京税関の始まりです [L]。その近くに、明治2年（1869年）、横浜裁判所と東京築地運上所の間で電信業務が開始されたことを記念した「電信創業の地」の石碑があります [M]。

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