collapse

Wiped out the forces of Choshu from political arena of Kyoto. (Boss of conspiracy)
The collapse of the coup regime of Tosa. (Boss of assassination)
kyoto's security was restored because they was expelled.
It was not.

They had come back to Kyoto secretly with cornered mentally.

"Set fire to various area of Kyoto.
Kill the responsible to guard  for Kyoto. (for example，Katamori of Aizu lord)
And take away the emperor.”

Such a plan had been set up.
This plan had participated many important figure of their group，
But this plan was detected beforehand by Shinsengumi，and most of the participants were killed.

Well，kyoto's security was restored by this.
It was not.

Choshu samurai did rage to hear this，immediately went to Kyoto in droves  as Choshu army.
They were stationed on the outskirts of Kyoto and demanded the lifting of sanctions imposed on them.
It was of course ignored.
They started marching aiming to Imperial Palace，battle began.

Eventually they destroyed by Satsuma and Aizu.
Most of the major figures of their group died by this battle.　
　
After this，Choshu became "Enemy of the Emperor".
(Because attack the Imperial Palace and they gave a severe damage to the Kyoto.)
Tokugawa decided to dispatch subjugation military to Choshu.　

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And immediately after this， the West Fleet had attacked to territory of Choshu.
They was landed Naval brigade after a naval bombardment，and did occupied military bases of Choshu.

Of course，this was retaliation for Choshu's shelling of sudden.
Above all，Attack to Western people at that time was frequently.
Nobody was able to deny the involvement of Choshu.
　

wirepuller

Around the same time，Choshu and Tosa influence was strong in political arena of Kyoto.

”Expel Western people from Japan.”
Group of that idea was at the helm of Choshu and Tosa at that time.
In Tosa's case，”Goushi” had assassinated to key Cabinet Ministers of opponents of their. (Literal translation of Goushi is samurai of village)
There were also aspects of the class struggle.

They became radicalization naturally.
And were involved to the conspiracy and assassination in Kyoto of many.
　
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”Expel western people from Japan by military force.”
　
They demanded so to the Tokugawa.
Assassination was the implicit background of there.
By the way，persons who had done direct negotiations to Tokugawa.
That was the aristocracy in Kyoto under the influence of them.

They were wirepuller only.
However，they were originally not position that was able to negotiation against Tokugawa.
(Due to the difference in class.)

"Decide the date，run the armed attack to the western countries of domestic."　
Well，it was finally approved.

When western countries found out about this fact，maybe they began doubts about the ability of the Tokugawa reign.


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That execution date.
Maybe Western countries did not know still this fact.
When they go to Yokohama by ship，they had to pass through the Strait of Choshu territory.
　
Choshu was shelling them from the land.　
Rightly they were originally defenseless，they had damage one after another.　　
　
Assassination rampant in Kyoto.　
Conspiracy escalate.
Criticism from Western countries.
The situation there was no grace for the Tokugawa.
　
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Suddenly，Imperial Palace had been guard by mainly Aizu and Satsuma.
And intrusiveness to the Imperial Palace of Choshu was prohibited.
Political change began.

Choshu was fiercely protested to this situation but it was useless.
Above all，the Emperor had an aversion to their actions.
Choshu and Tosa was exiled from political arena of Kyoto along with the aristocracy under the influence of their.
　
This political change effects were immediate in Tosa.
Group members of them were arrested one after another.
And they were executed.
　

claims

"We should immediately retaliate against Japan with the armed."

But the UK (proxy) ambassador reject it.
Delivery of criminal.
The payment of compensation.
He requested these two to tokugawa based on international law.

Tokugawa was depending on the payment of compensation.
But they could not extradition of criminals because perpetrator was of the Satsuma samurai.
The UK therefore negotiated with the Satsuma.
(At this point，the UK began doubts about the ability of the Tokugawa reign maybe.)

This negotiation was broken off, and war began between the UK and Satsuma.
This war did not take victory and defeat.
Satsuma had damaged the UK fleet.
But Kagoshima of center of Satsuma had severely damaged.
　
Well、the weird thing was happen after this.

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”If we request little strongly，that request will accepted.”

At that time，western society people might had thought so against eastern society.
In fact, Tokugawa's corresponds was like that.
Of course it was the corresponds of adults.
　
Satsuma was only the lord of one part of Japan .
However，Satsuma did not change their claims against UK.
Their claims did not change even start a war.
Their claims did not change even their base ground suffered severely damaged.

Easy negotiating partner for UK.
That would have been Tokugawa because they was the corresponds of adults always.
But UK had a favor to Satsuma.

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Satsuma was also brought home to the ability of the western world and their outdated in this war.
Even though Satsuma had the overwhelming number of soldiers，Kagoshima of base ground suffered severely damaged.
　
Above all，Their appearance was stubborn.
However，after this，Satsuma's action demonstrate the ability of the best political during this period in Japan.　
　
The UK and Satsuma rapidly became intimate.

namamugi incident

"They are invaders."

This recognition led to conflict with the Western countries finally.
Yokohama, near Edo.
There was a foreign settlement.

”Please refrain from going out on this day.”
There was notification like that to them from the Tokugawa.
But its notification was not thorough.
Some British people was went to sightseeing with the horse in that day.

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This day，matrix of the father of the lord of Satsuma was passing through there.
(De facto lord.)

"They are invaders."
He had this thought strongly.

This era，when there matrix goes through，people had to prostration on the ground.
If they had discourtesy against samurai. (If samurai had thought so)
Samurai has allowed Killing their.

British people came across this matrix.
It would of course was unusual，
They went through front of this matrix with horse.
　
”Down from the horse.”
Satsuma samurai said to them in Japanese. (maybe satsuma accent)
They would had not be able to understand it.

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"If you have time to cry. Fly high than it."
There was a words like that into Satsuma
Satsuma samurai had been referred to typical of the samurai.
In this case，It appeared in the bad case.
They killed one person.

Perpetrator wasn't unknown，it was clearly Satsuma samurai.
Of course, the foreign settlement was enraged. 　
　
"We should immediately retaliate against Japan with the armed."
Such opinions were accounted for many.

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Samurai has allowed Killing person other than samurai.
If they want it.
When Japanese people had holed up as a nation，that was not problem.

"But your think are wrong."
As a reality，people who think like that appeared from oversea.
As a reality，Japanese must socialize with those people.

After all，the era had come when should be changed.　
　
namamugi incident (english)　　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namamugi_Incident　

good fight

After the era changed，base ground of Aizu was attacked from the new government army as representatives of "the Anti-Emperor".
They unilaterally defeat，all Aizu samurai became exiled to barren land.
After this，they walk the history of hardship.　
　
However，when Aizu samurai was stationed in Kyoto，the Emperor at that time had only trust to Katamori of Aizu lord.
Definitely best of Kin-no was him.　
(Person who do their loyalty to the Emperor.)

After this emperor died，the era was changed.

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One of the reasons why they were hated to new government，there was the existence of Shinsengumi.

Shinsengumi was brave.
They fought well to protect the security of Kyoto.　
Therefore many people were killed for their.
But it was their role as armed police as the reality of the time.
　
Common sense now commonplace.
People who were saying it at that time.
They were assassinated.
Also there were incidents of attack to Western people frequently.　
　
 ”Set fire to Kyoto and take away the Emperor.”
There was also such a plan.
　
But when the era had changed.
People who had been killed from Shinsengumi.
When their's era had came.　
　
Simply stated，"Shinsengumi" became evil organization that kill an ally of justice.

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Of course Aizu samurai position also was very bad as enemy of the Empire Japan.
A few decades later，they had summarizes to document their activities in Kyoto.
That document sentence was also mentioned naturally to Shinsengumi.


To quote here  the words of Shiba san.

"All things were Shinsengumi’s crime."
”Nothing to do with us.”
Aizu was possible to say so.
　
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Not only Japan，the era was not still a era of Liberalism.　
Nation rights was stronger than civil rights.　
　
Aizu were enemy of own nation in its atmosphere.
Shinsengumi was an evil organization.　
　
”Shinsengumi’s crime was nothing to do with us.”
If they talked like that was became better things for them definitely.　
　
　
”Shinsengumi was solemn disciplined.
And their morale was very brave.
They didn't falter to any difficulty.　
　
At the time，many insubordination people (now those in power) came to Kyoto.
And they were broken the peace.
　
Shinsengumi had good fight against them for us."

shinsengumi

Shinsengumi was a Ronin organization.
However，most of them were not originally samurai.
They were farmers in Edo. (now Tokyo).　
They were also swordsman of town.

”Recruiting to soldiers for  protect the security of Kyoto.”
Such recruitment was in Edo.
But this was actually a conspiracy of Instigator.

”Protect the security of Kyoto for the Tokugawa.”
Collect the soldiers in this nominal，he was going to revolt against Tokugawa at Kyoto.

He went to Kyoto with soldiers，but this conspiracy failed.
 (There was also not approval of the soldiers.)
He eventually was killed by Tokugawa.　

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Little back to past.
Persons of some swordsman dojo of the town in Edo，they know it recruited.
　
This era was a status society.
Their born status did not change anything then unless they have a special talent and luck.
　
They wanted to be a samurai.
Troublous times came.
They had put the fate of his own to the ability of the self as a swordsman.　
However，this troublous times was troublous times to end the era of the samurai.

”Protect the security of Kyoto for the Tokugawa.”
They stayed in Kyoto as it is，and was became responsible for the maintenance of security under Aizu.
Of course they were not Anti-Emperor.　
　
”Reverence to the Emperor.”
This idea was common sense including Tokugawa.

Aizu

Tokugawa had been suffering to deteriorating security of Kyoto.
So Tokugawa decided to make the army stationed in Kyoto.

To its Secretary，Tokugawa was trying appointed to one of lords.
But Tokugawa’s appointed was ”politely” refused to everyone.

They were not opposed to the policies of the Tokugawa，but they know well the difficulty of the situation in Kyoto.

This appointment came to ”Matsudaira Katamori” of Fukushima Aizu finally.
He was person of the Tokugawa clan.

Of course both he and his vassal knew well the difficulty of the situation in Kyoto.

People’s aversion was very high against the policy of Tokugawa.
Also assassin was occured frequently because of that.
Stationed there.

”Reliably their hatred will focused on us.”
Vassal persuaded desperately so to refuse the appointment.
Soldiers of stationed forces that was samurai of Aizu.

"Aizu might perish for it."
They said up there.

However，Katamori was also all understand.
”Someone must do.”
"Remunerate the indebted of Tokugawa from ancestral."
He decided so as samurai.
They accepted this appointment with their tears. (Really it seems to have been so.)
　
Their prediction became a reality later.

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After arrived in Kyoto they began working to maintain security.
After a while，a Ronin organization was placed under the control of them as an auxiliary organization of its activities.

That Ronin organization was called ”Shinsengumi”.