Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 11, 2022 - September 14, 2022
Foreign ships came into the territorial seas forced the shogunate to revitalize the plan of defending the country. Defending with cannons were planned as a strategic choice and manufacturing of cannons was promoted. Material processing under manufacturing has already been researched. Cannons require structures for their deployment, mainly batteries, generally called Daiba. They were constructed on the sea and by the seashore all over the country. Manufacturing and construction of cannons and structures are separated in general, but both must be completed for existence as things. They are generally in a divisional system based on materials and processing, and all of them must be comprehensively managed in a system. Cannons and batteries are generally deployed in an integrated plan, so how they were deployed relatedly is another important issue. The aim of this paper is to research how manufacturing and construction of cannons and batteries were systematically managed and how cannons and batteries were deployed.
