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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>

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> At the end of that year, on 1857/12/3, Naoyuki was named ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'', replacing [[Mizuno Tadanori]].<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vol 2, University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo (1937), 454.</ref>

 

Naoyuki was named ''[[Gaikoku bugyo|Gaikoku bugyô]]'' (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) in [[1858]], but was then reassigned to the new position of ''Gunkan bugyô'' (Warships Magistrate) the following year.<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vol 3, University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo (1937), 142.</ref> Later that same year, he was dismissed from his position and sentenced to house confinement amidst the dismissal and house confinement of a number of prominent officials associated with foreign affairs.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 210.</ref>

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