Sources
Kinsei Nihon kokuminshi, vol. 49: Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians
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“All Four Walls Are Full of the Expel-the-Barbarians Faction” ―― The Fifth Month of Bunkyū 3 (1863): Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s Journey East and Submission of His Resignation
Tsuchiyama post station in Ōmi. Several assassins attacked the inn of Okabe Suruga no kami. Suruga no kami escaped the danger. But Tokugawa Yoshinobu, worried about what lay ahead, left an empty… -
The Whale-Sea Drunken Lord Enters the Capital ―― In the First Month of Bunkyū 3, Yamauchi Toyoshige and the Small Bridge over the Takase River
The tenth day of the First Month of Bunkyū 3 (1863). Off Shinagawa, a steamship lay at anchor. The Taihō-maru.
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