Bakumatsu and Restoration– category –

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…

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…