Title Ruins of the Anglo-Satsuma War Coastal Defense Battery

  • Kumamoto
  • Miyazaki
  • Kagoshima
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins National Parks/Quasi-National Parks
Medium/Media of Use:
Pamphlet
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Kirishima Kinko Bay Area Council

薩英戦争砲台跡


海岸沿いの根占町の近くにあるこの跡地には、かつて錦江湾を見下ろす砲台の台場がありました。最初は、海岸の60メートルに沿って建てられた高さ3メートル、幅4メートルの簡単な壁でした。しかし、1862年の生麦事件(薩摩藩(現在の鹿児島)の藩主の家族が横浜で英国人との口論になった後、英国側の補償要求に応えなかった)の後、台場は約400人の職人によって急速に拡張されました。この事件は1863年の薩英戦争を引き起こしましたが、この砲台が戦争中に使われることはありませんでした。


Ruins of the Anglo-Satsuma War Coastal Defense Battery


This ruin near the coastal town of Nejime was once a coastal defense battery overlooking Kinkowan Bay. At first it was a simple 3-meter high and 4-meter wide platform along 60 meters of the coast. Following the Namamugi Incident in 1862, when a British subject was killed in Yokohama following a diplomatic misunderstanding caused by a member of the daimyo family of Satsuma (present-day Kagoshima), the platform was quickly expanded. When the daimyo failed to respond to British demands for compensation, the incident devolved into the 1863 Anglo-Satsuma War. Despite the additional fortifications, however, this battery was not used during the conflict.


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