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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. -
Shallow abuse ―― Ninagawa Arata defends Oguri’s argument for borrowing French troops
It was the year when Ikeda Chikugo no kami, the envoy the shogunate had dispatched to France, was staying there. In this year, a certain proposal was brought to the shogunate from the side of the… -
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… -
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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