Undersea dance-Yokohama Chinatown-＜海底のダンス-横浜中華街-＞

The origin of Yokohama Chinatown (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) is the opening of Yokohama Port in 1859. Chinese people, mainly in Guangdong, who can understand Chinese characters, played an active role as an intermediary for Westerners who landed with the opening of the port. Eventually, an overseas Chinese settlement, which was indispensable to Japan and foreign settlements, was created in Yokohama Nitta, which is close to the foreign settlement, and later developed into Chinatown. ------------------------------------ 横浜中華街（神奈川県横浜市）の起源は、安政6年（1859年）の横浜開港。開港とともに上陸した西洋人の仲介役として活躍したのが、漢字を理解できる広東を中心とする中国人。やがて外国人居留地に近い横浜新田に、日本や外国商館にとって不可欠の存在だった華僑の居留地が作られ、後に中華街へと発展しました。 --------------------...View all