On 1854/10/30, he was officially granted a [[stipend]] of 2000 ''[[Japanese_measurements#Volume|hyô]]'' of rice, and rank equivalent to just below the ''kobushin bugyô''.
On 1854/10/30, he was officially granted a [[stipend]] of 2000 ''[[Japanese_measurements#Volume|hyô]]'' of rice, and rank equivalent to just below the ''kobushin bugyô''.
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Nagatoshi continued to play a prominent role in discussions and arrangements related to foreign relations into the latter half of the 1850s. In [[1857]], he was assigned to help oversee preparations for the visit of US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] to Edo.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 386.</ref>