Come back! Uraga magistrate office!

In 2020, Uraga magistrate office will have open for 300 years since 1720, which moved from Shimoda. To learn and feel it more, we wish the re-construction!

What had Saburosuke Nakajima accomplished in Uraga?

Ho-o-Maru, the Western Ship of Japan first. Made in Uraga.

	SABUROSUKE NAKAJIMA was Feudal era police of magistrate's office in Uraga, middle of 1800's. At the time in Japan, the strainger country ships threatened the security of Edo. The role of Uraga magistrate's office was checking every ship which was to sail to Edo. So, there were many works of commission business in Uraga. It's famous that he'd constructed Ho-o-Maru the first western ship in Japan at the Uraga dock. Then, he researched the shipbuilding technology of Susquehanna. The LAST SAMURAI of Uraga, SABUROSUKE NAKAJIMA, was martyrdom in Hakodate to save the Goryokaku against the new Goverment Force after Tokugawa's shogunate Taiseihoukan(1867).
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Study Uraga and SABUROSUKE NAKAJIMA	Magistration role in Uraga port- from Edo to Army Pier	What had Saburosuke Nakajima accomplished in Uraga?
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Fragments of Uraga Magistration building dug out	[In Hokkaido]Kaiyo-Maru, the ship that lifted himself in the old Hokkaido

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浦賀ゆかりの鳳凰丸と咸臨丸 - Ho-o-Maru and Kanrinmaru