Following Sabrosuke — The Other Last Samurai, installment 61 by Hiroaki Fujino

In the sixty-first installment of the series ‘Following Sabrosuke — The Other Last Samurai,’ writer and photographer Hiroaki Fujino recounts how Uraga served as an important calling port for shogunate warships amid unrest such as the Choshu Expedition. The piece highlights Uraga’s function in supplying water and food and, notably, providing coal to steamships the Tokugawa shogunate had imported as naval vessels. The article begins to discuss the origins of that coal supply, indicating a continuing examination of logistics and local industry in late-Edo naval operations.