The Establishment of the Japanese Army Arsenal

对东京和大阪工业现代化做出贡献的东京和大阪炮兵库，不仅可以作为东京和大阪铁工业发展的一个例子，也可以作为日本工业现代化的一个例子，但由于缺乏资料，对它的研究还不够充分。然而，新材料的发现却让我们有了更清晰的认识，东京和大阪炮兵库从1870年到1945年运行了75年，本文对其建立的过程及其初期的特点进行了考察，大村增二郎在东京和大阪炮兵库的建立中发挥了重要作用。这个兵工厂的主要目的是制造重炮。最初，所有的操作都由Nakashima Kanekichi监督，他是明治维新前德川政府派往荷兰的学生之一。1880年中岛离开大阪后，武器库引进了一种新的意大利技术——即压铜炮制造技术，并开始高效地制造重炮。

The Tokyo and Osaka Artillery Arsenal which contributed to the modernization of industry in Tokyo and Osaka might be an example not only of the development of iron industries in Tokyo and Osaka but also of the industrial modernization in Japan,No sufficient research has been done on it due to a lack of material. Discovery of new material, however, has allowed to get a clearer insight, The Tokyo and Osaka Artillery Arsenal functioned for seventy-five years, from 1870 to 1945, In this article the process of the establishment and characteristics ni its initial period have been examined, Omura Masujiro played a significant role in the establishment of the Tokyo and Osaka Artillery Arsenal. The mam purpose of the arsenal was to manufacture heavy guns. Initially all operations were supervised by Nakashima Kanekichi, who was one of the students dispatched to Holland by the Tokugawa Government before the Meiji Restoration. After Nakashima left Osaka in 1880, the arsenal introduced a new Italian technology - namely pressed copper gun manufacturing - and started manufacturing heavy guns efficiently,