Inscription on a Tobiguchi

[FlorianB]

Hello,

I need Your kind help in translating an inscription on a firebrigade tool called TOBIGUCHI.
The owner (not me) provided me with the following pictures plus a photoshoped variation of the inscription which could be found in the lower half of the handle between socket and ring:

 

Thanks in advance,
Florian

[C0D]

長濱消防組 Nagahama fire department

[FlorianB]

That was quick!

Thank You,

Florian

[Bazza]

Is this the same NAGAHAMA where Hideyoshi (?) once had a castle??  Long ago I had a katana signed NAGAHAMA JU KIYOTSUGU.  I passed it on in the need for something else, but quite some time after I discovered that Nagahama was a castle town and I kicked myself a little...

 

BaZZa.