On 22 September, an unveiling ceremony of the epitaph entitled ‘the first Japanese person who died in the Netherlands’, which was placed next to the gravestone of Mr. Kitaro Ōkawa, took place at the ‘Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats’ in Amsterdam. He was a blacksmith who was one of the Japanese overseas students to the Netherlands in the period of the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Near his grave, one also finds the gravestone of Cornelis Johannes van Doorn, an engineer who conducted a lot of water engineering works including “Asaka canal” in Japan.

Location:
De Nieuwe Ooster
Kruislaan 126
1097 GA Amsterdam

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