Players who have played Japanese naval warfare games should have heard that when you return to the headquarters, you will be prompted to return to the town guard mansion, not the familiar base, headquarters and other names, so what kind of institution does the town guard in this sentence "Governor, welcome back to the town guard mansion" refer to? What kind of history does he have?
The scene where the town guard in the game returns to the town guard house
The history of the town shofu can be traced back to a foreign government institution set up in the Nara period in Japan, when in order to prevent the invasion of the Ezo people (Note: Hokkaido indigenous people, Ainu people) and run the land of Hao, the imperial court set up special official posts in Dewa, Mutsu, etc., called towns or town offices, which were initially set up in Taga Castle, later transferred to Banysawa Castle (on the edge of Mizusawa City, Iwate Prefecture), Hiraizumi, etc., and abolished due to the opening of the Kamakura shogunate, and temporarily revived when the construction of the Takeshō was built.
The Hao area was set up as a town to prevent Ezo
Most of the official positions were guarded by local vassals or envoys who concurrently held the position of Zhenshoufu shogun or zhenshou shogun, which was a pure official title, which was completely different from the later shogun title. There are also fourth-rank official posts such as deputy general, military supervisor, and Cao Chang. Originally, this official position was not high, but due to its important authority and later actual power, it was controlled by the Oshu Fujiwara clan, and although the function was replaced by Hiraizumikan, it was inherited by the later samurai as an honorary position.
Schematic diagram of the establishment of the Navy Town Guard in 1886
During the Meiji Restoration, Japan divided its waters in half in 1876 and opened the modern naval Yamen Mansion, that is, the modern naval town guard, responsible for maritime defense, security, and military operations in their respective directions. The Tokai Town Shofu is located in Yokohama, and the Saikai Town Shogun is located in Nagasaki.
In 1884, the Tokai town shogun was moved to Yokosuka, and in 1886, the Navy Ordinance was reenacted and divided the country into five town shomoru prefectures: Yokosuka in Kanagawa, Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture, Maizuru in Kyoto, Kure in Hiroshima, and Muroran in Hokkaido (abolished in 1903). In 1905, the Chinese Lushun was set up as the Lushunkou Town Guard Office until 1914, and the Maizuru Town Guard Office was demoted in 1923 and the port was abolished, and then re-established in 1939. The result was the name of the "Four Great Town Guards" as we know it.
「Maizuru Town Mori House」
Kaifu opened in 1901, as the weakest of the "Four Great Town Guards" and often abandoned, Maizuru's sense of existence is indeed very weak, it is the only town guard on the Sea of Japan side, and the defense tasks it faces also come from the Sea of Japan side. Originally, there was no combat pressure from the sea on this side, monitoring Russia, which was not strong in naval strength, escorting the routes between China and Japan and China and South Korea, building ships and repairing ships in a semi-rear state, plus the population was the smallest in the town guard, so Maizuru was relatively not famous.
The former site of the red brick warehouse complex of Shoufu in Maizuru Town
"Yokosuka Town Mori House"
Opened in 1884, the defense mission of the town of Yokosuka is in the direction of the East Sea, located in most of the Miura Peninsula in southeastern Kanagawa Prefecture, bordered by Tokyo Bay to the east and Sagami Bay to the west. There are many naval academies here, from the early naval mine school and engineering school to the later navigation school, mine school, work school, naval organ school, etc., which have trained a large number of front-line sailors for the IJN combined fleet. In addition, the Yokosuka Naval Factory also built the [Swift Whale] summoning ship in the aforementioned "The Elite of the Mine House Comes from a Ship", Japan's first self-built warship [Satsuma], and also an aircraft carrier manufacturing base in the Showa era, from which a large number of aircraft carriers were born, such as the second battle [Flying Dragon], the fifth battle [Shozuru], the heavy aircraft carrier [Shinano] and so on.
The site of the construction of the Yamato No. 110 ship [Shinano].
Japan's first self-built modern warship [Satsuma]
Aircraft carriers built at the Yokosuka Naval Yard [Wyvern], [Shozuru], [Shinano]
"Sasebo Sho Morifu"
The office opened in 1889. Located in the northwestern tip of Japan's Kyushu region, northern Nagasaki Prefecture, it serves as a base for defense of the area around western Japan and for aggressive activities in East Asia such as Korea and China. Sasebo was fortunate enough to be selected from the three cities of Imari City and Hirado Island to open a military port as the town guard. Its most famous event is the explosion and sinking of the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet in 1905 and the meritorious battleship [Mikasa], which won the Russo-Japanese War, and was later salvaged and converted into a museum. The protagonists of the aforementioned "Tomozu Incident" are also stationed in the Sasebo town guard.
[Mikasa], which had been soaked for a year after the explosion, was salvaged from the water
"Wu Zhen Shoufu"
The province was opened on April 21, 1890. It is a city located in the southwest of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, close to the Seto Inland Sea, as the most important military port, protected by Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku on three sides, Bungo Waterway in the south, Kii Waterway in the north, and Kanmon Strait in the west (former Yamaguchi Prefecture Magaseki, now Shimonoseki, where the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed), you can go south, go east, and go west. The home port of the IJN Combined Fleet during World War II (laughs...) ), the key areas of the US military aviation.
Kure Port is located right next to the Seto Inland Sea, the most important military port of the Japanese Navy