People
Tokugawa Iemochi徳川家茂
- Also known as
- 慶福、徳川慶福、德川慶福
-
The Result of Manabe’s Report to the Throne ―― From the Second Month to the Twelfth Month of Ansei 5
In other words, it was a letter happily reporting the outcome in Kyoto. Ii read through it that very morning. -
The author of the script was not shallow in judgment ―― the decision in the sixth month of Ansei 5 to send Manabe Akikatsu and Sakai Tadaaki up to the capital
The twelfth day of the sixth month of Ansei 5 (1858). -
Manabe Akikatsu’s Deception ―― The Document of the Kogosho and “Nothing But Lies,” Tenth Month, Ansei 5
The lower chamber of the Kogosho. Present together were the court liaisons to the shogunate, Hirohashi Mitsushige and Madenokōji Masafusa. The matter was taken up at the fifth hour of the night,… -
While the Shogun Still Breathed ―― Ii Naosuke’s Punishment of Owari, Mito, and Echizen on the Fifth Day of the Seventh Month of Ansei 5 (1858)
Ii Naosuke went to the castle at the usual hour, and his departure that day extended to half past the hour of nine at night, reaching one in the morning. The reason was that the beriberi of the… -
The Person at Umoregi no ya Was Waiting ―― In the Fourth Month of Ansei 5 (1858), Hotta Masayoshi’s Return to Edo and Two Difficult Problems
There, an envoy of Matsudaira Yoshinaga, the leader of the Hitotsubashi faction, caught up with him. Tokutomi Sohō writes that Yoshinaga, unable to wait for Hotta's return to Edo, had deliberately… -
Three Hundred Years of a Residence, Ended by One Document ―― The Confiscation of Bannerman Residences and the People of Edo on the Sixteenth Day of the Seventh Month of Keiō 4
The sixteenth day of the seventh month of Keiō 4 (1868). It had been a little over three months since Edo Castle was handed over. The new government issued an order to confiscate the residences of…
1