From the Quarries

Good evening Quarrymen and thanks to our recently upgraded YouTube channel Fellowcraft David Tyler!

This weekend’s lecture was selected by our wonderful Channel Masters and Fellowcrafts. It explores the remarkable journey of Freemasonry in Japan, tracing its path from expatriate lodges in the treaty ports of the 1860s through earthquake, suspicion, and wartime suppression, to its post-war revival and eventual indigenisation with the founding of the Grand Lodge of Japan in 1957. Drawing on vivid anecdotes—from aprons stitched from parachutes in Occupied Tokyo to the rediscovery of confiscated lodge treasures in police custody—it presents a story both institutional and human, where universal Masonic ideals were worked in very local stone.

On YouTube Saturday 30 August.