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Bunkyū
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Bakumatsu and Restoration
“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." -
Bakumatsu and Restoration
The Four Walls Are All Full of the Expel-the-Barbarians Party ―― In the Fifth Month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s Journey to Edo and Submission of His Resignation
Tsuchiyama post station in Ōmi. Several assassins attacked the inn where Okabe Suruga no kami was staying. Suruga no kami escaped the danger. But Tokugawa Yoshinobu, worried about what lay ahead,… -
Bakumatsu and Restoration
The Whale-Sea Drunken Lord Enters the Capital ―― Yamauchi Toyoshige and the Small Bridge over the Takase River, First Month of Bunkyū 3
The tenth day of the first month of Bunkyū 3 (1863). A steamship lay at anchor off Shinagawa. The Taihō-maru.
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