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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…
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