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Abe Masahiro
was the chief senior councillor (rōjū) in the Tokugawa shogunate of Bakumatsu period Japan at the time of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry on his mission to open Japan to the outside world.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce
The was signed on 26 August 1858 by Lord Elgin and the then representatives of the Japanese government (Tokugawa shogunate).
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Ansei great earthquakes
The Ansei great earthquakes (安政の大地震, Ansei no Dai Jishin) were a series of three major earthquakes that struck Japan during the Ansei era (1854–1860).
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Ansei Purge
was a multi-year event in Japanese history of the Edo period.
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Ansei Treaties
The Ansei Treaties (Japanese:安政条約) or the Ansei Five-Power Treaties (Japanese:安政五カ国条約) are a series of treaties signed in 1858, during the Japanese Ansei era, between Japan on the one side, and the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Netherlands and France on the other.
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Ōmura Masujirō
was a Japanese military leader and theorist in Bakumatsu period Japan.
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Bansha no goku
The Bansha no goku (蛮社の獄, literally "Indictment of the society for western (or barbarian) study") refers to the 1839 suppression of scholars of Western Studies (rangaku) by the Edo Shogunate government of Japan.
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Barbarian
A barbarian is a human who is perceived to be either uncivilized or primitive.
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Battle of Hakodate
The was fought in Japan from December 4, 1868 to June 27, 1869, between the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate army, consolidated into the armed forces of the rebel Ezo Republic, and the armies of the newly formed Imperial government (composed mainly of forces of the Chōshū and the Satsuma domains).
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Battle of Sekigahara
The was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month), that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Battle of Toba–Fushimi
The occurred between pro-Imperial and Tokugawa shogunate forces during the Boshin War in Japan.
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Benjamin Jaurès
Constant Louis Jean Benjamin Jaurès (3 February 1823 in Albi, Tarn – 13 March 1889) was a 19th-century French admiral and senator for life, who was active in Japan during the Bombardment of Shimonoseki (1863) and the Boshin War (1868–1869).
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Boshin War
The, sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Charles W. King
Charles W. King was an American merchant in Canton, China, who is famous for having tried to open trade with Japan on the pretext of repatriating seven Japanese castaways, among them Otokichi, to their homeland in 1837 in the Morrison Incident.
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Chōshū Domain
The was a feudal domain of Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867).
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Commodore (United States)
Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.
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Consular court
Consular courts were law courts established by foreign powers in countries where they had extraterritorial rights.
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Convention of Kanagawa
On March 31, 1854, the or was the first treaty between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Daimyō
The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.
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Date Munenari
The Marquis was the eighth head of the Uwajima Domain during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and a politician of the early Meiji era.
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Dejima
, in old Western documents Latinised as Deshima, Decima, Desjima, Dezima, Disma, or Disima, was a Dutch trading post notable for being the single place of direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period. It was a small fan-shaped artificial island formed by digging a canal through a small peninsula in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634 by local merchants. Dejima was built to constrain foreign traders. Originally built to house Portuguese traders, it was used by the Dutch as a trading post from 1641 until 1853. Covering an area of or, it was later integrated into the city through the process of land reclamation. In 1922, the "Dejima Dutch Trading Post" was designated a Japanese national historic site.
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Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels
The was a law passed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1825 to the effect that all foreign vessels should be driven away from Japanese waters.
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Edo
, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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Edward and Henry Schnell
Edward Schnell and Henry Schnell were brothers of Dutch extraction and German arms dealers active in Japan.
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Edward St. John Neale
Edward St.
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Ee ja nai ka
was a complex of carnivalesque religious celebrations and communal activities, often understood as social/political protests, which occurred in many parts of Japan from June 1867 to May 1868, at the end of the Edo period and the start of the Meiji Restoration.
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Egawa Hidetatsu
was a Japanese Bakufu intendant of the 19th century.
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Emperor Kōmei
was the 121st emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Meiji
, or, was the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from February 3, 1867 until his death on July 29, 1912.
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Enomoto Takeaki
Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu-period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.
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Ernest Mason Satow
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.
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Export
The term export means sending of goods or services produced in one country to another country.
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Exposition Universelle (1867)
The International Exposition of 1867 (Exposition universelle de 1867), was the second world's fair to be held in Paris, from 1 April to 3 November 1867.
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Extraterritoriality
Extraterritoriality is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations.
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Feudalism
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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Firearm
A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.
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First Chōshū expedition
The First Chōshū expedition (Japanese:第一次長州征討) was a punitive military expedition led by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Chōshū Domain in retaliation for the attack of Chōshū on the Imperial Palace in the Kinmon incident.
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First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862)
The First Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese:第１回遣欧使節, also 開市開港延期交渉使節団) was sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1862.
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First Opium War
The First Opium War (第一次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China.
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Four Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu
was a term given to four samurai during the Bakumatsu era in Japanese history.
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France–Japan relations
The history of relations between France and Japan goes back to the early 17th century, when a Japanese samurai and ambassador on his way to Rome landed for a few days in Saint-Tropez and created a sensation.
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French corvette Dupleix (1861)
The Dupleix was a steam and sail corvette of the French Marine Nationale.
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French military mission to Japan (1867–68)
The French Military Mission to Japan of 1867-68 was one of the first foreign military training missions to Japan.
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Fudai daimyō
was a class of daimyōs who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa in Edo-period Japan.
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Gaikoku bugyō
were the commissioners or "magistrates of foreign affairs" appointed at the end of the Edo era by the Tokugawa shogunate to oversee trade and diplomatic relations with foreign countries.
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Germany–Japan relations
The relations between Germany and Japan (Nichidokukankei, Deutsch-japanische Beziehungen) were officially established in 1861 with the first ambassadorial visit to Japan from Prussia (which predated the formation of the German Empire in 1866/1870).
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Gresham's law
In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good".
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Hakodate
is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hayashi Akira
(also known as Hayashi Fukusai) was an Edo period scholar-diplomat serving the Tokugawa shogunate in a variety of roles similar to those performed by serial Hayashi clan neo-Confucianists since the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Henry Heusken
Hendrick Conrad Joannes Heusken (January 20, 1832 – January 15, 1861) was a Dutch-American interpreter for the first American consulate in Japan, established at Gyokusen-ji in Shimoda, Shizuoka in the late Bakumatsu period.
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Hijikata Toshizō
was the Japanese Vice-Commander (副長 Fukucho) of Shinsengumi, a great swordsman and a talented military leader who resisted the Meiji Restoration.
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HMS Phaeton (1782)
HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, ''Minerva''-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy.
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Hokkaido
(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.
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Hotta Masayoshi
was the 5th Hotta daimyō of the Sakura Domain in the Japanese Edo period, who served as chief rōjū in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, where he played an important role in the negotiations of the Ansei Treaties with various foreign powers.
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Ii Naosuke
was daimyō of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death on March 24, 1860.
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Iinuma Sadakichi
was a Japanese samurai of the Aizu domain, and lived well into the 20th century.
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Import
An import is a good brought into a jurisdiction, especially across a national border, from an external source.
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Inflation
In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.
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Isolationism
Isolationism is a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who assert that their nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance.
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Izu Peninsula
The is a large mountainous peninsula with deeply indented coasts to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshū, Japan.
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Izunokuni
Izunokuni City Hall is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japan–United Kingdom relations
are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Japanese barque Kankō Maru
was Japan's first steam-powered warship.
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Japanese Embassy to the United States
The was dispatched in 1860 by the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu).
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Japanese frigate Kaiyō Maru
was one of Japan's first modern warships, a frigate powered by both sails and steam.
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Japanese warship Kanrin Maru
Kanrin Maru was Japan's first sail and screw-driven steam corvette (the first steam-driven Japanese warship, Kankō Maru, was a side-wheeler).
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Japanese warship Shōhei Maru
was a Western-style sailing frigate constructed on orders of the Tokugawa shogunate of Bakumatsu period Japan by Satsuma Domain in response to the Perry Expedition and increasing incursions of foreign warships into Japanese territorial waters.
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John W. Dower
John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian.
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Jules Brunet
Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 – 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a famous role in the Japanese Boshin War.
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Kagoshima
is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the south western tip of the island of Kyushu in Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin.
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Kagoshima Bay
is a deep inlet on the coast of Japan.
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Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in Kantō region of Japan.
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Kanmon Straits
The or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands.
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Katsu Kaishū
Count was a Japanese statesman and naval engineer during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period.
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Kawakami Gensai
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period.
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Kido Takayoshi
(born; August 11, 1833 – May 26, 1877), also referred to as, was a Japanese statesman of the Meiji Restoration.
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Kinmon incident
The, also known as the, was a rebellion against the Tokugawa shogunate that took place on August 20, 1864, at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
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Kobe
is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.
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Kondō Isami
was a Japanese swordsman and official of the late Edo period, famed for his role as commander of the Shinsengumi.
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Kyoto
, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Léonce Verny
François Léonce Verny, (2 December 1837 – 2 May 1908) was a French officer and naval engineerSims, Richard.
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Le Monde illustré
Le Monde illustré (title translation: The Illustrated World) was a leading illustrated newsmagazine in France which was published from 1857–1940 and again from 1945 to 1956.
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Louis Cullen
Louis Michael Cullen (born 1932) is an Irish diplomat, academic, historian, author and Japanologist.
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Marius Jansen
Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000) was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.
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Mark Ravina
Mark Ravina (born 1961) is a scholar of early modern (Tokugawa) Japanese history, and Professor of History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1991.
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Matsudaira Katamori
was a samurai who lived in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period.
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Matsudaira Yoshinaga
, also known as Matsudaira Keiei,Beasley, William G. (1955).
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Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
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Mōri Takachika
was the 13th daimyō of Chōshū Domain.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Mexican peso
The Mexican peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico.
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Mito Rebellion
The, also called the Kantō Insurrection or the, is a civil war that occurred in the area of Mito Domain in Japan between May 1864 and January 1865.
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Mitogaku
refers to a school of Japanese historical and Shinto studies that arose in the Mito Domain (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture).
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Morrison incident
The of 1837 occurred when the American merchant ship, Morrison headed by Charles W. King, was driven away from "sakoku" (isolationist) Japan by cannon fire.
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Mortar (weapon)
A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount.
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Nagasaki
() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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Nagasaki Naval Training Center
The was a naval training institute, between 1855 when it was established by the government of the Tokugawa shogunate, until 1859, when it was transferred to Tsukiji in Edo.
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Namamugi Incident
The (also known sometimes as the Kanagawa Incident, and as the Richardson Affair) was a samurai assault on British subjects in Japan on September 14, 1862, which occurred six days after Ernest Satow set foot on Japanese soil for the first time.
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Namazu (Japanese mythology)
In Japanese mythology, the or is a giant catfish who causes earthquakes.
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National security
National security refers to the security of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, and is regarded as a duty of government.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.
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Navy
A navy or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Niigata, Niigata
is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture located in the Chūbu region of Japan.
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Nirayama, Shizuoka
was a town located in Tagata District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Odaiba
is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo.
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Okita Sōji
was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period.
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Opium
Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).
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Order to expel barbarians
The was an edict issued by the Japanese Emperor Kōmei in 1863 against the Westernization of Japan following the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.
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Osaka
() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Paixhans gun
The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans) was the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Rangaku
Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 學/Shinjitai: 蘭学, literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning") is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641–1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation (sakoku).
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Rebellion
Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.
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Rector (academia)
A rector ("ruler", from meaning "ruler") is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.
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Republic of Ezo
The was a short-lived state established in 1869 by a part of the former Tokugawa military in what is now known as Hokkaido, the large but sparsely populated northernmost island in modern Japan.
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Resident (title)
A Resident, or in full Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.
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Reverberatory furnace
A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases.
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Robert B. Van Valkenburgh
Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (September 4, 1821 – August 1, 1888) was a United States Representative from New York, officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and subsequent US Minister Resident to Japan.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Ryō
A was a gold currency unit in pre-Meiji Japan Shakkanhō system.
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Saga Domain
, also known as Hizen Domain, was a Japanese domain in the Edo period.
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Saigō Takamori
was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration.
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Sakamoto Ryōma
was a Japanese prominent figure in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Sakoku
was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreigners were barred from entering Japan, and common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country for a period of over 220 years.
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Sakuma Shōzan
sometimes called Sakuma Zōzan, was a Japanese politician and scholar of the Edo period.
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Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
The was the assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke (1815–1860) on 24 March 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
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Samurai
were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
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Sankin-kōtai
was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period of Japanese history.
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Satsuma Domain
, also known as Kagoshima Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period.
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Satsuma Province
was an old province of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
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Second French Empire
The French Second Empire (Second Empire) was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.
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Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)
The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (第２回遣欧使節, also 横浜鎖港談判使節団), also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on December 29, 1863 by the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Second Opium War
The Second Opium War (第二次鴉片戰爭), the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the United Kingdom and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.
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Shōgun
The was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions).
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Shimazu clan
The were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.
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Shimazu Nariakira
was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain.
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Shimoda, Shizuoka
is a city and port located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Shimonoseki
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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Shinpan (daimyo)
The daimyōs were lords who were certain relatives of the Tokugawa ''shōguns'' of Japan.
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Shinsengumi
The was a special police force organized by the Bakufu (military government) during Japan's Bakumatsu period (late Tokugawa shogunate) in 1863.
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Shishi (organization)
, sometimes known as, were a group of Japanese political activists of the late Edo period.
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Sonnō jōi
was a Japanese and Chinese political philosophy and a social movement derived from Neo-Confucianism; it became a political slogan in the 1850s and 1860s in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period.
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Taikun
is an archaic Japanese term of respect derived from Chinese I Ching which once referred to an independent ruler who did not have an imperial lineage.
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Takano Chōei
was a prominent scholar of Rangaku (western science) during Bakumatsu period Japan.
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Takashima Shūhan
was a Japanese samurai and military engineer.
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Takasugi Shinsaku
was a samurai from the Chōshū Domain of Japan who contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration.
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Tokugawa coinage
Tokugawa coinage was a unitary and independent metallic monetary system established by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1601 in Japan, and which lasted throughout the Tokugawa period until its end in 1867.
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Tokugawa Iemochi
(July 17, 1846 – August 29, 1866) was the 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1858 to 1866.
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Tokugawa Nariaki
Tokugawa Nariaki (徳川 斉昭, April 4, 1800 – September 29, 1860) was a prominent Japanese daimyō who ruled the Mito Domain (now Ibaraki Prefecture) and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji Restoration.
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Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
was the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.
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Tokyo Bay
is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.
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Tokyo Imperial Palace
The is the primary residence of the Emperor of Japan.
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Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris (October 3, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan.
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Tozama daimyō
A was a daimyō who was considered an outsider by the rulers of Japan.
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Japan)
The, also called the Harris Treaty, between the United States and Japan was signed on the deck of the in Edo (now Tokyo) Bay on July 29, 1858.
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan (Japanese:日仏修好通商条約) was signed in Edo on October 9, 1858, by Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, the commander of the French expedition in China, assisted by Charles de Chassiron and Alfred de Moges, opening diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Treaty of Shimoda
The Treaty of Shimoda (下田条約, Shimoda Jouyaku) (formally Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia 日露和親条約, Nichi-Ro Washin Jouyaku) of February 7, 1855, was the first treaty between the Russian Empire, and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
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Unemployment
Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.
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Unequal treaty
Unequal treaty is the name given by the Chinese to a series of treaties signed with Western powers during the 19th and early 20th centuries by Qing dynasty China after suffering military defeat by the West or when there was a threat of military action by those powers.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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USS Wyoming (1859)
The first USS Wyoming of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War.
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Watanabe Kazan
was a Japanese painter, scholar and statesman member of the samurai class.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for scientific research and their usable products like meat, oil and blubber.
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Yamauchi Toyoshige
Yamauchi Toyoshige, also known as, was a Japanese daimyō in the Shikoku region in the late Edo period.
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Yokohama
, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.
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Yokoi Shōnan
was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu.
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Yoshida Shōin
, commonly named Torajirō (寅次郎), was one of Japan's most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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1854 Nankai earthquake
The 1854 Nankai earthquake occurred at about 16:00 local time on 24 December.
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1854 Tōkai earthquake
The 1854 Tōkai earthquake was the first of the Ansei great earthquakes (1854–1855).
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1855 Edo earthquake
The, also known as the Great Ansei earthquake, was one of the major disasters of the late-Edo period.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu
