Kannonzaki Lighthouse

Kannonzaki Lighthouse is a beacon on Cape Kannon, on Miura Peninsula, in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. The first Kannonsaki Lighthouse was the main beacon worked in Japan. It was one of the eight beacons whose development was stipulated by the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858. The arrangement accommodated the advancement of helps to route with the opening of Japanese ports to outside exchange.

Present day designing strategies had not been created in Japan at the time so the Tokugawa Shogunate mentioned the help of the specialists of France and England for the development of beacons and the acquiring of essential gear. The Tokugawa Shogunate explicitly wanted to develop a beacon at the mouth of Tokyo Bay for vessels that would leave the Yokosuka Iron Works then under development.

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate The new Meiji government started development of the main beacon with Francois Leon Verny, a worker of the Yokosuka Iron Works, as the central specialist. The work was initiated in November 1868, and finished following four months. The Lighthouse was first lit on February 11, 1869 amid the most recent months of the Boshin War. The first beacon was a western style building made of block, rectangular fit as a fiddle, and painted white.