Years
Bunkyū
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Kyoto in the Second Month of Bunkyū 3 ―― The Summoning of the Daimyo and the Proclamation of Expelling the Barbarians
On the sixteenth day of the second month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), at the hour of six-half in the morning (seven o'clock). Matsudaira Yoshinaga, holder of the office of chief of state affairs, went out… -
“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." -
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,… -
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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