September 2026– date –
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The Riverbed of the Karasu River, Two Swords ―― How Ninagawa Arata Indicted the Death of Oguri Tadamasa
The first day of the fourth month of Keiō 4 (1868). Tōzenji, at the foot of Mount Haruna, in Gonda, Jōshū. Roughly eight hundred troops from the three domains of Takasaki, Annaka, and Obata closed in… -
The Character for Peace, Sealed Away ―― Tokugawa Nariaki, the Trump Card of the Seventh Month of Kaei 6
On the third day of the seventh month of Kaei 6 (1853), a notice came down to the Mito residence. There was business concerning coastal defense, it said, and he was asked to attend the castle every…
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