Qualla: Irozaki Lighthouse https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:40 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/4/s/ir-zaki-lighthouse-wp/irozaki-lighthouse.jpg Qualla: Irozaki Lighthouse https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse Irozaki Lighthouse: Introduction https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse/ Photo credit 663highland, CC BY 2.5. A 26-year-old Scottish railway engineer named Richard Henry Brunton arrived in Japan in 1868 with a crash course in lighthouse design from the famous Stevenson engineers of Edinburgh and a mandate from the new Meiji government to light up the most dangerous coastline in the Pacific. Within three years, he had built ten western-style lighthouses across the archipelago. The tenth, completed on October 5, 1871, was planted on the wind-scoured tip of Cape Irozaki, the southernmost point of the Izu Peninsula, where Sagami Bay meets Suruga Bay and the currents conspire to wreck ships on rocky reefs. That lighthouse still stands, rebuilt in concrete after the original wooden tower fell to a storm, its beam sweeping across waters that have claimed vessels for centuries.

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/4/s/ir-zaki-lighthouse-wp/xn4s-irozaki-lighthouse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Irozaki Lighthouse: The Father of Japanese Lighthouses https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse/ Photo credit NY066, CC BY-SA 3.0. Japan's modernization in the Meiji era required, among many things, safe passage for the foreign ships now trading in its harbors. The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858 had specifically stipulated the construction of eight lighthouses, but the Meiji government r...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/4/s/ir-zaki-lighthouse-wp/xn4s-irozaki-lighthouse-the-father-of-japanese-lighthouses.mp3 0:06 2 full Irozaki Lighthouse: Wood, Wind, and Concrete https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse/ Photo credit NY066, CC BY-SA 3.0. Brunton designed the original Irozaki Lighthouse as an octagonal wooden structure, perched on a hill at the outermost extremity of Cape Irozaki. Construction began in July 1871 and was completed by October of the same year, a remarkably fast build even by Brunton's efficient stan...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/4/s/ir-zaki-lighthouse-wp/xn4s-irozaki-lighthouse-wood-wind-and-concrete.mp3 0:06 3 full Irozaki Lighthouse: Where Two Bays Collide https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse/ Photo credit NY066, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cape Irozaki is a place of dramatic geography. The Izu Peninsula juts south from the main body of Honshu like a crooked finger pointing into the Philippine Sea, and Irozaki is its final knuckle. To the west lies Suruga Bay, one of the deepest bays in Japan, with the snow-capped c...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/4/s/ir-zaki-lighthouse-wp/xn4s-irozaki-lighthouse-where-two-bays-collide.mp3 0:06 4 full Irozaki Lighthouse: Honored Among Fifty https://qualla.com/ir-zaki-lighthouse/ Photo credit NY066, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Japan Lighthouse Association has designated Irozaki as one of the '50 Lighthouses of Japan,' a recognition that considers not only the light's navigational importance but its historical and scenic significance. Operated by the Japan Coast Guard, the lighthouse continues its o...

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