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*''Japanese'': 横浜外国人墓地 ''(yokohama gaikokujin bochi)''
*''Japanese'': 横浜外国人墓地 ''(yokohama gaikokujin bochi)''
The [[Yokohama]] Foreign Cemetery, located in [[Yokohama]]'s [[Motomachi]] neighborhood, contains the graves of a number of prominent Chinese, European, and American individuals who died in [[Bakumatsu period|Bakumatsu]] or [[Meiji period]] Japan. The cemetery covers a total of roughly 5600 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' and is divided into 22 sections; most of the graves were severely damaged in the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, and today the cemetery documents record roughly 5000 names and 3000 extant tombstones.
The [[Yokohama]] Foreign Cemetery, located in Yokohama's [[Motomachi]] neighborhood, contains the graves of a number of prominent Chinese, European, and American individuals who died in [[Bakumatsu period|Bakumatsu]] or [[Meiji period]] Japan. The cemetery covers a total of roughly 5600 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' and is divided into 22 sections; most of the graves were severely damaged in the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, and today the cemetery documents record roughly 5000 names and 3000 extant tombstones.
It was established in [[1859]] after Russian sailors Roman Mophet and Ivan Sokoloff were killed by ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists. The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] purchased an area of land adjacent to the temple [[Zotoku-in|Zôtoku-in]] in which to bury them; these remain the oldest graves in the cemetery today. Numerous other individuals were buried on the grounds over the years. The Japanese graves were moved in [[1861]], and the Chinese graves in [[1871]], in order to better differentiate between the groups. Zôtoku-in itself was moved to the Heiraku neighborhood, up on the Bluff, following the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake.
It was established in [[1859]] after Russian sailors Roman Mophet and Ivan Sokoloff were killed by ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists. The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] purchased an area of land adjacent to the temple [[Zotoku-in|Zôtoku-in]] in which to bury them; these remain the oldest graves in the cemetery today. Numerous other individuals were buried on the grounds over the years. The Japanese graves were moved in [[1861]], and the Chinese graves in [[1871]], in order to better differentiate between the groups. Zôtoku-in itself was moved to the Heiraku neighborhood, up on the Bluff, following the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake.
==Selected list of burials==
==Selected list of burials==
*[[John Diack]] (d. [[1900]])
*[[Henry James Black]], first foreign ''[[rakugo]]'' performer
*[[John Diack]] (d. [[1900]]), assistant to Morel, sub-architect of Japan's first railway
*[[Felix Evrard]], missionary, French language teacher, and aide to [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]]
*Anton Geerts, influential in pharmaceuticals
*[[Hermann Grauert]], first mayor of the foreign settlement in Yokohama
*Clarence Griffin, founder of first Boy Scouts troupe in Japan (in [[1911]])
*[[John Carey Hall]], consul general of Britain
*[[Edward Charles Kirby]], businessman who started an ironworks, which later became Yokohama's naval shipyard
*[[Andre Roger Lecomte]], introduced French bread into Japan; formally honored by both France and Japan
*[[John Frederic Lowder]], legal advisor to Yokohama Customs House
*[[Henry Maillot]], professor of physical sciences at [[Tokyo Imperial University]]; tutor to the [[Meiji Emperor]] in French language in [[1872]]
*[[Edmund Morel]] (d. [[1871]]), Engineer-in-Chief of Japan's first [[railroads]]
*[[Edmund Morel]] (d. [[1871]]), Engineer-in-Chief of Japan's first [[railroads]]
*George Ramsay, influential in navigation
*[[Charles Richardson]] (d. [[1862]]), chief victim of the [[Namamugi Incident]]
*[[Charles Richardson]] (d. [[1862]]), chief victim of the [[Namamugi Incident]]
*Elizabeth Scidmore, influential in getting [[cherry trees]] planted in Washington DC
*Hans Kurt Seebach, influential in development of modern prison system in Japan
*John Trumbull Swift, first fraternal secretary to Japan from YMCA of North America
*[[Thomas Thomas]], director of Japan's first Western-style horse racetrack
*[[Edwin Wheeler]], medical doctor formally honored by Japan in [[1908]]
*[[Charles Wirgman]], illustrator/cartoonist, journalist
*[[Charles Wirgman]], illustrator/cartoonist, journalist
*Russian sailors Roman Mophet and Ivan Sokoloff
*Russian sailors Roman Mophet and Ivan Sokoloff
==References==
==References==
*"[http://www.yfgc-japan.com/history_e.html History of The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery]," Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery official website.
*"[http://www.yfgc-japan.com/history_e.html History of The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery]," Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery official website.
*Pamphlets available on-site.
==External Links==
==External Links==
