Lookout post - Toomibansho

Japanese: 遠見番所 - とおみばんしょ

〘Noun〙① A place where lookouts kept watch. ※Nitta Rodanki (mid- to late 17th century) - "Moreover, the sound of the early bell from the Ashikaga lookout post was heard loudly." ② In the Edo period, these were watch posts set up in places with good views along the coast to monitor the arrival of foreign ships and strengthen security. It was first set up by the shogunate in 1638 on Hinoyama ( Gongenyama ) in Nomomura (Nomo-cho, Nagasaki City) at the tip of the Nagasaki Peninsula, and when a foreign ship entered within 100 nautical miles, a signal was sent to Nagasaki immediately. Battery. ※Haiku poem, Edo Shin Yahyakuin (1756) - "Oysters are fresh water and salt, Yahyakukai (Yonenaka) The lights of the lookout post go dark from the shore (Ryumin)"

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 遠見番がつめて見張りをする場所。※新田老談記（１７Ｃ中‐後か）中「其上足利遠見番所の早鐘の音けはしく相聞候」② 江戸時代、異国船渡来を監視し警備態勢を固めるため、沿岸各地の見晴らしのよい場所に設けた番所。寛永一五年（一六三八）、幕府が長崎半島の先端部の野母村（長崎市野母町）の日ノ山（権現山）に設けて、異国船が百浬内外まで進入すると、直ちに長崎に合図で通報させたのが初まり。台場。※俳諧・江戸新八百韻（1756）「蛎は真水に塩の八百会〈米仲〉渚より遠見番所の灯も暮て〈龍眠〉」

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