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…
