Kinkasan Lighthouse

Kinkasan Lighthouse
金華山灯台

File:Kinkasan Lighthouse Miyagi Japan.jpg Kinkasan Lighthouse
Location	Kinkasan Oshika Peninsula Ishinomaki, Miyagi Japan
Coordinates
Year first constructed	1876
Year first lit	November 1, 1876 (1876-11-01)
Automated	2005
Construction	granite tower
Tower shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern	white tower and lantern
Height	54.6 metres (179 ft)
Focal height	12.82 metres (42.1 ft)
Original lens	Second order Fresnel
Intensity	320,000 cd
Range	20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)
Characteristic	Al Fl W R 20s.
Admiralty number	M6546
NGA number	4344
ARLHS number	JPN-259
Japan number	JCG-1728

Kinkasan Lighthouse (金華山灯台, Kinkasan tōdai) is a lighthouse on Kinkasan, an island off the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan.

The Kinkasan Lighthouse was one of 26 lighthouses designed and built in Meiji period Japan by the British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. It was completed and lit on November 1, 187, eight months after Brunton left Japan.

The lighthouse was destroyed from July to August 1945 by the United States Navy during World War II, but was rebuilt in February 1946. It was completely automated on April 1, 2005.

See also

• List of lighthouses in Japan

References

• Brunton, Richard. Building Japan, 1868-1879. Japan Library, 1991. ISBN 1-873410-05-0
• Pedlar, Neil. The Imported Pioneers: Westerners who Helped Build Modern Japan. Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0-904404-51-X
• Brunton, Richard H. "THE JAPAN LIGHTS (INCLUDING APPENDIX AND PLATES AT BACK OF VOLUME)." Minutes of the Proceedings [of the Institution of Civil Engineers] 47.1877 (1876): 11. ICE Virtual Library. Web. 8 May 2011. <http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/imotp.1877.22547>.

External links

• Lighthouses in Japan (Japanese)
• Historic Lighthouses of Japan