Abstract
Reinforcing the guard of Nagasaki Port was planned by Saga-Han in 1850. For this purpose, cannon manufacturing facility including reverberatory furnaces to be used for casting strong and long range iron made cannon was built at Chiiji. In order to develope own technology of manufacturing iron cannon, a special independent team was organized, and the team succeeded production of cannons to be set onto the new forts. This paper presents analysis of the organization and developing schedule of this successful project.
