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Walking down the Oranda-zaka, or “Dutch slope”, the stone-paved path between the houses of the Higashi-Yamate settlement and the Kwassui Women's College in Nagasaki, Japan. The slope was named after the western merchants who settled in the area in the second half of the 19th century, who the locals referred to collectively as “Hollanders” (initially their majority was indeed from the Netherlands).
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Walking down the Oranda-zaka, or “Dutch slope”, the stone-paved path between the houses of the Higashi-Yamate settlement and the Kwassui Women's College in Nagasaki, Japan. The slope was named after the western merchants who settled in the area in the second half of the 19th century, who the locals referred to collectively as “Hollanders” (initially their majority was indeed from the Netherlands).