Overview
The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.
About this place
The Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces (韮山反射炉, Nirayama hansharo) are a set of four Edo period reverberatory furnaces erected by the Tokugawa shogunate in what is now the Nirayama neighborhood of the city of Izunokuni, Shizuoka in the Tokai region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1922. and was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1857 Architect / artist：Egawa Hidetatsu Highlights / collection：Only reverberatory furnace surviving in working order, Brick and plaster chimney Genre：Architecture, Metalwork
Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Official website
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