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Drum Bridge
Description
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM629Y_Taiko_Bashi_Drum_..."According to the bronze plaque at the bridge:
SHINSHICHI NAKATANI Jigozen Mura, Hiroshima-Ken, Japan 1846 - 1922 MASTER BUILDER Commissioned by the government of Japan to create a Drum Bridge (Taiko Bashi) for the 1894 San Francisco Midwinter Fair, Designed and built the bridge in Japan, had a Shinto blessing for it and brought it to San Francisco, Sold the Nakatani family rice fields to complete the Bridge and create the Bell Gate (Shoro-no-mon) through which visitors enter the Japanese Tea Garden,"
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Japanese Garden Creek on footpath
- Location
- San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1893 for the California Mid-Winter Exposition of 1894
- Builder
- - Shinshichi Nakatani
- Design
- Timber arch
- Dimensions
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Total length: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- Moon Bridge
Taiko Bashi - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.77072, -122.46748 (decimal degrees)
37°46'15" N, 122°28'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/546899/4180509 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 81151 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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