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Ishin zengo no seisō to Oguri Kōzuke no shi, Continued
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“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. -
“I shall withdraw,” Oguri wrote ―― Five letters from Oguri Tadamasa, who returned from Tsushima in the seventh month of Bunkyū 1 (1861)
The business of the letter was one thing: "the matter of suddenly withdrawing today." -
A Night with the Three Scrolls of Heaven, Earth, and Man ―― In Man’en 1 (1860), before his voyage to America, Oguri Tadamasa received the full transmission from Fujikawa Seisai
The first month of Man'en 1 (1860). In Edo's Shitaya, someone knocked at the gate of a secluded residence at midnight. The visitor was the inspector Oguri Bungo no kami Tadamasa, who had come… -
The Tree by the Grave Has Grown Tall ―― Six Pieces of Response Concerning Oguri Kōzuke no suke, December, Shōwa 3
In the pages of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun on the twelfth day of December, Shōwa 3 (1928). The historian Hanami Sakumi discusses a newly published book. Its title is Ishin zengo no seisō to Oguri… -
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… -
A Shot Through the Throat ―― How Ninagawa Arata Recorded Kawaji Toshiakira’s Suicide on the Fifteenth Day of the Third Month of Keiō 4 (1868)
On the night of the fifteenth day of the third month of Keiō 4 (1868). In a residence in Edo's Banchō, an old man rose from his bed. He was paralyzed on one side of his body. He bathed, put on formal…
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