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Opening and closing Hakone ―― The strategy of Oguri Kōzuke no suke as recorded by Ninagawa Arata, and the sixty years that followed
It was in Keiō 4 (1868), after the fighting against the Shōgitai at Ueno had ended. -
The Person at Umoregi no ya Was Waiting ―― In the Fourth Month of Ansei 5 (1858), Hotta Masayoshi’s Return to Edo and Two Difficult Problems
There, an envoy of Matsudaira Yoshinaga, the leader of the Hitotsubashi faction, caught up with him. Tokutomi Sohō writes that Yoshinaga, unable to wait for Hotta's return to Edo, had deliberately… -
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… -
Footsteps in an Empty Valley ―― In Kaei 6, the Daimyo’s Opinions on America and Takashima Kihei’s Argument for Opening the Country
The tenth month of Kaei 6 (1853). Takashima Kihei. He had once called himself Shirōdayū Shūhan, and was the man who introduced Western artillery techniques to Japan. -
The Character for Peace, Sealed Away ―― The Seventh Month of Kaei 6, and the Trump Card Named Tokugawa Nariaki
On the third day of the seventh month of Kaei 6 (1853), a notice came down to the Mito residence. Since there was business concerning coastal defense, he was to attend the castle roughly every other… -
The riverbed of the Karasu River, two swords ―― How Ninagawa Arata accused the death of Oguri Tadamasa
The first day of the fourth month of Keiō 4 (1868). Tōzenji, at the foot of Mount Haruna, in Gonda, Jōshū. About eight hundred troops from the three domains of Takasaki, Annaka, and Obata approached…
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