The Tokugawa shogunate ordered Nabeshima Naotada to take responsibility for the defenses of the Nagasaki (home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. ) area in 1854, then in 1864, he was ordered to participate in the First Chōshū expedition, and contributed 1000 soldiers to the Tokugawa army.
The Tokugawa shogunate ordered Nabeshima Naotada to take responsibility for the defenses of the Nagasaki (home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. ) area in 1854, then in 1864, he was ordered to participate in the First Chōshū expedition, and contributed 1000 soldiers to the Tokugawa army.