People
Tokugawa Nariaki徳川斉昭
- Title
- 中納言
- Also known as
- 景山、水戶中納言、水戶前中納言、水戶老公、水戶齊昭
二日後の七月五日、斉昭は登城した。 Read the articleSentences quoted verbatim from the articles
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One Who Knocked at a Commoner’s Door in Yodo ―― Ansei 6, First Month: Sanjō Sanetsumu’s Request to Take the Tonsure and the Plan to Purge the Emperor’s Circle
It was around ten o'clock at night on the ninth day of the first month of Ansei 6 (1859). Someone knocked at the door of a commoner's house in Yodo. The master of the house was the former Minister of… -
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). -
The Tinted Lens of the Ii Side ―― The Eleventh Month of Ansei 5: From the Record of Inquiries into Mito Affairs to the Evil Hand Reaching Mito
The eleventh month of Ansei 5 (1858). A bundle of rumor records had been placed at Ii Naosuke's side. The title was "Record of Inquiries into Mito Affairs." -
Abe Masahiro’s Letter of Resignation ―― A Report of Headache and Dizziness, Fourth Month of Ansei 1
The tenth day of the fourth month of Ansei 1 (1854). Abe Masahiro, the senior councilor in the chief seat, did not attend the castle. He sent a short report to Makino Tadamasa, a fellow senior… -
The First Day of the Sixth Month: Announcement of the Adopted Lord ―― The Shogunate That Concealed the Name, and Kyoto’s Reply Blocked by the River
The first day of the sixth month of Ansei 5 (1858). The members of the Gosanke who had come to Edo Castle as usual (Owari excepted), the two kyō lords, and the men of the Tamarinoma-zume were ordered… -
Two Draft Texts for Circulating the Imperial Edict ―― The Letter Tokugawa Nariaki Wrote but Never Sent
Tokugawa Nariaki, while under house confinement, placed two draft texts before his retainers. Tokutomi Sohō writes that the steward Kuki Naojirō and the chief oku-yūhitsu Harada Hachibei joined them… -
“Thank you, thank you,” said Parkes ―― On the twenty-eighth day of the second month of Meiji 2, the assassins of Sanjō Nawate and the turnabout of the advocates of expelling the barbarians
The twenty-eighth day of the second month of Meiji 2 (1869), Kyoto. On this day, the ministers of Britain, France, and the Netherlands were to have an audience with the emperor. -
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 Shield of “I Beg Your Pardon” ―― On the Twenty-Third Day of the Sixth Month of Ansei 5, Tokugawa Yoshinobu Confronts Ii Naosuke
The twenty-second day of the sixth month of Ansei 5 (1858). A chief retainer of the Hitotsubashi house, having withdrawn from Edo Castle, returned to the residence and presented his lord with a… -
The Three Characters “Violation of the Imperial Command” ―― Tokugawa Nariaki’s Petition and Ii Naosuke’s Reply, Sixth Month of Ansei 5 (1858)
At the Mito domain residence in Edo, Tokugawa Nariaki was making corrections to an inquiry document. It was a reply. -
Stalling for Five Years, for Ten Years ―― In the Sixth Month of Kaei 6, Tokugawa Nariaki Was Told the Shogunate’s True Intentions at the Komagome Residence
Tokugawa Nariaki was watching Hachirōmaro, dressed in armor, ride a horse at Sugi Baba. It was around the seventh half-hour, roughly five in the afternoon. Word reached him even at the riding ground.
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