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Shinagawa Lighthouse was a lighthouse in Shinagawa (品川第二砲台), south of Tokyo, Japan.

Shinagawa Lighthouse
品川灯台
Tower
Shinagawa Lighthouse, now in Meiji Mura.

Location	Shinagawa, Japan (former) Meiji Mura (current)
Coordinates	35°20′29.9″N 136°59′38.9″E
Construction	brick tower
Height	9 metres (30 ft)
Shape	cylindrical tower with gallery and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern

Light
First lit	5 March 1870
Deactivated	1957
Lens	4th order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	decorative light[1]

The lighthouse was the third of the four lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It was relocated to the Meiji Mura historical theme park near Nagoya.[2]

Later lighthouses would be built by the English engineer Richard Henry Brunton, until the Japanese would take over lighthouse construction in 1880.[3]

References

Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Japan: Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture)". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Global Change: Mankind-marine Environment Interactions Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi p.240
"The English engineer Richard Henry Brunton continued Verny's work; starting in 1 880, lighthouses were designed by Japanese architects" in Japan encyclopedia Louis Frédéric p.593

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v t e Lighthouses of Japan
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Other historic lighthouses	Rokkosaki Lighthouse (1883) Nyūdōzaki Lighthouse (1898) Wakkanai Lighthouse (1900) Mizunokojima Lighthouse (1904) Sunosaki Lighthouse (1919) Ōmazaki Lighthouse (1920 Nomazaki Lighthouse (1921) Tappizaki Lighthouse (1932)
Modern lighthouses	Yokohama Marine Tower (1961) Enoshima Sea Candle (2003)
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