横浜外国人墓地 The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery Museum is a pocket-size rock building, the Cemetery Office, simply inside the principal gate of the inwards Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery in The Bluff/Yamate district of Yokohama. 
The museum details some of the most famous people buried inwards the cemetery too also provides a map of how to catch their graves. In add-on in that place are interesting panel displays of photos of Yokohama too details of some of the fascinating people too events associated alongside Yokohama during its early on history every bit a Treaty Port when foreigners get-go began to alive too catch the port. 
Some of the interesting people who passed through Yokohama at that fourth dimension were Richard Risley (1814–1874), an American circus performer known for his incredible feats of human foot juggling. Risley came to Nippon inwards 1864 alongside "ten performers too 8 horses" too staged the get-go western circus events inwards Yokohama including shows alongside Japanese acrobats. However, every bit he was forbidden to perform exterior Yokohama past times the Japanese government he ran into fiscal difficulties too therefore develop Japan's get-go dairy selling milk from diary cows imported from San Francisco too H2O ice cream manufactured inwards an ice-house alongside H2O ice from China. 
Risley is famous for taking a troupe of Japanese acrobats to the Paris Expo of 1867 for which the get-go e'er Japanese passports, numbers 1-18 were issued for the performers. H5N1 farther laid of passports 19-27 were too so issued for some other troupe of performers led past times a Japanese-top (koma) spinner. 
When Risley returned to America he took alongside him diverse Japanese circus acrobats too jugglers who staged the get-go Japanese surgical operation of acrobatics inwards the USA to keen acclaim inwards California too New York earlier moving on to London too Europe After seeing them inwards New York, Mark Twain wrote: "Japanese Jugglers stimulate got taken New York past times storm. . . . It has to last a colossal sensation that is able to laid everybody talking inwards New York, but the Japs did it. And I got precious tired of it for the get-go few days." Other Western entertainments introduced to Nippon through the unusual enclave of Yokohama included Equus caballus racing. The get-go horse race was held inwards Yokohama inwards 1862, forthwith a massively pop sport inwards modern-day Japan. 
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery 96 Yamate-cho Naka-ku Yokohama, 231-0862 Tel: 045 622 1311 The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery Museum is opened upwards daily too is gratuitous to enter. Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is a brusque walk from Motomachi-chukagai Station (Exit 6) on the Minato-mirai Line too is to a greater extent than or less a number of other historic buildings on The Bluff including the Bluff No. 234 Building, the Ellisman Residence, Berrick Hall too Christ Church. From Sakuragicho Station stimulate got double-decker #11 too larn off at the Motomachi-koen-mae stop. The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery itself is entirely opened upwards to earth on weekends too national holidays. Read to a greater extent than almost Richard Risley Carlisle Professor Risley too the Imperial Japanese Troupe: How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan-and Nippon to the West past times Frederik L. Schodt © JapanVisitor.com Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/
