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Maresuke Nogi (general) lived in Ginza.
On November 11, 1849 (December 25, 1849), he was the third son of clansman Nogi Kiji (150 stones [7]) of the Chofu clan, a branch of the Choshu clan, and was named Genzo. After becoming renowned as a soldier, it is called "General Nogi" or "General Nogi". In December 1871 (January 1872), Genzo Nogi, who was ranked seventh, changed his name to Nokinori. On September 10, 1874, he became a commander of the Army Sir, but he served as a secretary or deputy secretary of the Army Sir (at that time Aritomo Yamagata), and rarely returned home straight. It was enough to get a teacher from Yamagata.
At this time, he may have been attending the Omuraya, a Kawafune-juku in Sankumabori. It's a 5-6 minute walk from home.
On October 14, 1896, Nogi was appointed Governor of Taiwan and moved to Taiwan. On February 5, 1904, just before the start of the Russo-Japanese War, a mobilization order was issued, and Nogi returned to work as the director of the Konoe Division. The 3rd army led by Nogi was based on the 1st and 11th divisions that belonged to the 2nd Army, whose purpose was to capture the Port Arthur Fortress. Nogi captured Russia's permanent fortress in this battle.
The first attack was a powerful attack in the form of being pushed halfway by the request from the main management to "early capture". Nogi's personality was the driving force behind Port Arthur. On January 1, 1905, Port Arthur Fortress Commander Anatoy Stessel (also referred to as Stepsley), who broke through the fortress front, lost reserve troops, and made it impossible to resist, sent a surrender letter to Nogi, and on January 2, the battle was suspended, and Port Arth Arthur was dropped.
As a secret story with Stessel, "The piano that Mrs. Bela played in the fortress of Port Arthur is preserved at Kanazawa Gakuin University in Ishikawa Prefecture. It was presented by Stessel to Nogi at the time of the fall of Port Arthur, and it is said that it was handed over to the Kanazawa Ninth Division, who died in Port Arthur. "
The center of the group photo above is Anatoliy Stessel, Commander of Port Arthur Fortress.
Maresuke Nogi was evaluated as a foolish general by "Clouds on the Slope (Ryotaro Shiba)"
Maresuke Nogi was a stupid general after World War II, but this was thoroughly branded as "stupid" and "incompetence" in Ryotaro Shiba's novel "Clouds on the Slope" .
Fighting is a series of miscalculations. Initially, the main battlefields were Liaoyang, Sagawa, Kuromizodai, and Bonten located on the branch lines of the Kiyoshi Azuma Railway in Manchuria, and Port Arthur fortress was considered second. However, if the Port Arthur fortress was not dropped, the Japanese army would eat between the north and south, and a white arrow stood in Nogi.
The principle of fortress attack is said to be "three times the force of the offensive."
In other words, the attacking side needs three times more troops than the defender. The Chief Staff Headquarters assumed that the enemy forces were 15,000 and the number of cannons were 200, and gave the Nogi army three divisions (about 50,000) and more than three hundred cannons. However, this is a miscalculation, with enemy troops of 48,000 and about 640 cannons. I was mistaken for one third.
Originally there are 150,000 people here and more than 600 cannons there will be no win. It is impossible for 50,000 people to be defeated. Both the first total attack and the second total attack fail. Nonetheless, the third total attack finally dropped the Port Arthur fortress.
There is a word "the best victory in 1,000", but the battle against Port Arthur is nothing more than a miracle victory that can be said to be "the best in 1,000". With Nogi's control over the impregnable Port Arthur fortress, Russian General Commander Cropatokin became pale blue, fearing the Nogi army, saying, "This is not a human business."
The two major battles between Japan and Russia are the Battle of Port Arthur and the Battle of Bonten, but the third army led by Nogi was the most contributing to the victory. However, the Battle of Port Arthur killed about 15,000 dead and about 60,000 injured person. Nogi lost his second son in the third total attack. However, Nogi did not say, "Because the staff headquarters did not send troops," he took everything as his own responsibility.
"I have not reached my command and commanding, but I have killed many of His Majesty's baby in Port Arthur. I'm sorry," said Emperor Meiji with tears.
"I'll take responsibility. Please forgive me to dedicate myself."
On the other hand, Emperor Meiji says, "I understand your feelings well, but you will die after I am." Nogi later served as the director of the study, and died on the day of the great mourning of Emperor Meiji in 1912. He was 63 years old.
On September 13, 1912, at 8:00 p.m. on the night of the Great Mourning Ceremony, a gun of Emperor Meiji was roared, and five cows were fired by a gun.
I left from the Imperial Palace car for the funeral hall of Aoyama Nenheijo. At that time, Nogi had his own blade with his wife Shizuko.
Kachidokibashi has been erected many times since the Meiji era. On January 18, 1905 (1905), volunteers set up a “Kachidoki no Ferry” connecting Tsukiji and Tsukishima as a celebration of the fall of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. The bridge that was bridged to commemorate the 1940 Expo (although it was actually canceled) was named "Kachidokibashi" because of this ferry. Without the fall of General Nogi's Port Arthur Fortress, this bridge would not have been named "Kachidokibashi".
I don't know at all when "Omuraya" where Maresuke Nogi passed was made and when it disappeared. I'm going to consult if "Honomori" replaces the Kyobashi Library opens, but I'm worried that I can talk as before.