Statue of the Jagatara Girl

Memorial to Japan's historical xenophobia

Statue marking an unhappy moment in Japanese history when after the Shimabara Christian Rebellion of 1637 in 1639 with the closure of Japan's borders (sSakoku) any women or girls thought to have mixe...

Sad story

This monument is located in Exchange Square. Jyagatara is actually Jakarta, now the capital of Indonesia. After the Edo Shogunate banned the trade with foreigners, many half-blooded children were expe...

what is a potato girl?

Original Text

　At the pier of Hirado where you can see Hirado Castle on the mountain in front of you, there was a statue of Jagatara daughter next to the large parking lot. I wondered what "Jagatara daughter" was, so I read the explanation board next to the statue. It is said that it was in 1639, so it was the early Edo period. It is said that more than 40 women and women were banished from Batavia (now Jakarta) without leaving any Japanese women who married both Dutch and British and gave birth to children. Foreign and ...

it was a statue of the children who were banished from jagatara.

Original Text

　There was a large parking lot before the Hirado City Tourist Information Center was built, and this statue of my daughter was built opposite the information center across the parking lot. I thought about what "Jagatara daughter" was and read the explanation board. In the early Edo period, the Shogunate expelled children born between foreigners and Japanese people and Japanese mothers to Jagatara (current Jakarta) while strengthening the policy of seclusion. Those children were potatoes and daughters.

Telling the sad history

Original Text

A statue built in the Hirado Port Exchange Square. It tells the sad history of the expulsion of a child born between foreigners and Japanese during the time of seclusion.