Uraga bugyō (浦賀奉行) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate with responsibility for administration of the port of Uraga, which was a port of inspection for Japanese coastal vessels, especially those proceeding to Edo.[1]
This office was created in 1721, and it was held by one or two fudai daimyōs—always two who were appointed concurrently after 1844.[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor".[2]
Uraga is both a town and a harbour at the entrance of Tokyo Bay, located on the eastern side of the Miura Peninsula, at the northern end of the Uraga Channel.[3]
Strategic location
editDue to its strategic location at the entrance of Edo Bay, Uraga has often been the first point of contact between visiting foreign ships and Japan.[4] In 1853, Commodore Perry lowered the anchor of his ships in front of Uraga.[5] On the return of the Commodore's squadron in 1854, the ships by-passed Uraga to anchor closer to Edo at Kanagawa, which is where the city of Yokohama now stands.[6]
List of Uraga bugyō
edit- Toki Yorimune (1844–1845).[7]
- Mizuno Tadanori (1852–1853).[8]
- Izawa Masayoshi (1854).[9]
- Toki Tomoaki (1854–1857).[7]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 330.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Shinto詳細". 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Uraga and Yokosuka, Japan". JAXA Earth-graphy / Space Technology Directorate I. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Kitahara, Michio (1986). "COMMODORE PERRY AND THE JAPANESE: A STUDY IN THE DRAMATURGY OF POWER". Symbolic Interaction. 9 (1): 53–65. doi:10.1525/si.1986.9.1.53. ISSN 0195-6086.
- ^ Sewall, John S. (1905). The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas, pp. 177; Cullen, L.M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds, p. 178.
- ^ Sewall, p. 243.
- ^ a b Beasley, Select Documents, p. 341.
- ^ Beasley, William G. (1972). The Meiji Restoration, p. 100.
- ^ Beasley, Select Documents, p. 334.
References
edit- Beasley, William G. (1972). The Meiji Restoration. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0815-0
- ____________. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. ISBN 0-19-713508-0; ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2 (cloth)]
- Cullen, L.M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82155-X (cloth). ISBN 0-521-52918-2 (paper)
- Sewall, John S. (1905). The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas, Bangor, Maine: Chas H. Glass & Co. [reprint by Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1995. ISBN 0-548-20912-X ]
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