横浜旧跡巡りの見学レポート
神奈川大学外国語学部英語英文学科です。今回の「Professors' Showcase」はポスト・コロニアル世界文学が専門のワイ イー ロ先生です！
ロ先生の3年次ゼミ生と交換留学生の「横浜旧跡巡りの見学レポート」について紹介します。レポートは学生のリフレクションペーパーをもとに書かれています。『PLUSi』に掲載されたので、興味のある方は是非『PLUSi』vol. 20、pp.14~16をご覧ください。
Global English Communication (GEC) プログラム3年次ゼミの「Advanced Seminar in World Literature II」では、学生が19世紀から現在にかけて英国と日本の交流について、歴史、文学、及び芸術を学んでいる。2023年10月21日（土）に横浜開港資料館を始め、横浜にあるいろいろな旧跡を巡って、1859年～1923年日本におけるイギリス人や貿易会社が何をしたのか、どのように日本人と接触したのか、深く理解してきた。関内、日本大通り、元町・中華街など日本が開国された時に造られた町で散歩しながら、条約港であった横浜の歴史を身に着けた。教室で堅苦しい授業を受けるより、学生は楽しい体験を通して横浜の国際的な過去を知ることが得られた。
見学ツアーのルート
１． 横浜開港資料館 Yokohama Archives of History
２． 横浜市開港記念会館 Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
３． 外国人居留地 英国1番館の旧跡 Site of English House Number 1
４． 外国人居留地 英国7番館の旧跡 Site of English House Number 7 （現在の戸田平和記念館）（保存改修工事中）
５． 中華街 Chinatown
６． 港の見える丘公園 Minatonomieru Oka Park
７． イギリス館 British House
８． 山手111番館 Yamate House Number 111
Ann-Kathrin Reck:
On the 21st of October our class had a walking tour of historic sites in Yokohama. One of the many places we saw was the フランス山 (France Hill). For me it’s always exciting to visit places with ruins. It gives a glimpse of the world and how it was before. I learned that day that “France Hill” is the place where the French army was stationed from the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period. The Port View Hill Park was not only an important military base for France, but also for Britain. On the picture you can see the remaining walls from one room as well as one staircase (on the right on the photo). Now the walls are full of plants and ivy and you can only imagine how life had been during these times. I enjoyed it a lot visiting this place in the Port View Hill Park.
Kenshin Kitamura:
Minato-no-mieru-Oka Park was an interesting place for me. Actually, I had been to this place in June 2021. At that time, I didn’t know anything about the historical things of this park and just visited and walked through this area. However, when I visited the park at the second time with historical background in my mind and saw a lot of things in the park, I felt like I got a different perspective and I could see everything differently from what I saw in 2021.
Koki Kakizaki:
It was an exciting tour of visiting historical sites related to the beginning of the connection between Japan and foreign countries in the Meiji period. The most interesting place visited in the tour is Yokohama Archives of History. It was impressive. I saw hundreds of exhibits like photos, newspapers, maps, diaries, and documents. I felt deeply the atmosphere of the era while looking at the exhibits and reading the guide texts. Especially, I was impressed with a group of trees growing in the courtyard. The trees appear on the famous picture of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s landing, and the picture is displayed at the front of the trees, so you can compare the two and imagine the scene of which the US navy led by Perry was coming to Yokohama, then concluded a treaty at the very place. This tour deepened my knowledge of the Bakumatsu-Meiji era which I learnt at school.
Yeyi Xiao:
I really like Yamate House No.111. Although it's not big, it's connected to modern Japan very well. It has Halloween decorations, which are very cute, and there are different displays at different times. The view out of the window is also very beautiful, you can see the rose garden in between. While people visit Yamate House No.111 for free, Yamate House No.111 can also earn some income through activities to better maintain the operation of the building. I am pleased that Yamate House No.111 has been preserved to this day, so that we can still easily experience the Spanish bungalows of 100 years ago in Yokohama.
写真の提供：Kenshin Kitamura, Koki Kakizaki, Ann-Kathrin Reck, Xiao Yeyi
ワイ イー ロ（記）
元記事はこちら！
http://human.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/gakkai/student/pdf/i20/2006.pdf
『PLUSi』Vol.20（2024年）はこちら！
ワイ イー ロ先生についてはこちら！
ワイ イー ロ先生のゼミについてはこちら！
ロ先生が教えてらっしゃるGECについてはこちらから！
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