Duties of Uraga Magistrate's Office

The Uraga Magistrate’s Office ( 浦賀奉行所 ) was established in 1720 in the area formerly known as Nishi Uraga Village.  There were facilities such as the Uraga Administration Office for official duties and the Uraga Inspection Office (checkpoint) which inspected ships entering and leaving Edo (present-day Tokyo).

Here is some more information on what the office was tasked to do:

 入り鉄砲に出女 "Iri Teppo ni Shu-jo" (guns in, women out) was one of the transportation policies aimed at maintaining order in Edo and controlling the daimyo during the Edo period and was enforced by the Edo Shogunate at checkpoints.

  -- "Iri-teppo" refers to weapons such as guns brought into Edo.

  -- "Shu-jo" refers to women who leave Edo, and are wives and daughters of feudal lords living in Edo.

== [Purpose]

To prevent feudal lords and others from rebelling in Edo.

To prevent the wives and daughters of feudal lords who were living in Edo as hostages from fleeing to their home provinces and rebelling against the shogunate.

== [Method of crackdown]

For the passage of guns, a gun pass with the seal of the senior councilor must be submitted to the checkpoint.

For the passage of women, the pass that they carried was checked against the Shogunate's caretaker's seal, and the details written on the pass and the woman were carefully revised and confirmed before they were allowed to pass.