Editing Kobe (section)

===Meiji period===
Hyōgo Port was opened to foreign trade by the Shogunal government at the same time as Osaka on January&nbsp;1, 1868, just before the advent of the [[Boshin War]] and the [[Meiji Restoration]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Whitney Hall|author2=Marius B. Jansen|title=The Cambridge History of Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7OFYajIf9QgC&pg=PA304|year=1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-22356-0|page=304}}</ref> At the time of the opening of the city for foreign trade, the area saw intense fighting resulting from the civil war in progress. Shortly after the opening of Kobe to trade, the [[Kobe Incident]] occurred, where several western soldiers sustained wounds from gunfire by troops from Bizen. The region has since been identified with the West and many foreign residences from the period remain in Kobe's [[Kitano-chō|Kitano area]].
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File:Kobe Bund 1979.94.6P01B.jpg|[[Kobe foreign settlement]] Kaigan-dōri Avenue around 1885
File:Shinkaichi.jpg|[[Shinkaichi]] theatre street in Kobe (Taisho era)
File:Viewofkobe.PNG|Hyōgo Port in the 19th century<ref>From the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?110089 NYPL Digital Library]</ref>
File:Kobe kaigan street01 1920.jpg|The Bund, built in the 1860s–1930s
File:Choueke house02 1920.jpg|[[Kitano-chō|Kitano area]], built in the 1880s–1910s
File:Old hyogo prefectural office bld03 1920.jpg|Former Hyogo prefectural office, built in 1902
File:Sesshu Kobe coast prosperity view.jpg|This [[nishiki-e]] (colored woodcut) shows a foreign steamboat entering Hyōgo Port shortly after its opening to the West in the late 19th century. 
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