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Elevated from ''kachi-gashira'' to ''[[metsuke]]'' in [[1853]], Nagai was assigned to the guard stations at Edo Bay the following year. On [[1854]]/1/22, he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official in charge of coastal defense). On 4/5 that same year, he was re-assigned to [[Nagasaki]]; a year later, on [[1855]]/4/10, [[Asano Ichigaku]] was assigned to take his place in Nagasaki.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 45.</ref>
Elevated from ''kachi-gashira'' to ''[[metsuke]]'' in [[1853]], Nagai was assigned to the guard stations at Edo Bay the following year. On [[1854]]/1/22, he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official in charge of coastal defense). On 4/5 that same year, he was re-assigned to [[Nagasaki]]; a year later, on [[1855]]/4/10, [[Asano Ichigaku]] was assigned to take his place in Nagasaki.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 45.</ref>
Naoyuki continued to play a prominent role in foreign relations matters; 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>
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