Sakuradamon Incident (1860) - Wikipedia
The Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen, or 桜田門の変 Sakuradamon no Hen) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
The Japanese Mission of 1860 - White House Historical Association
2015年4月23日 · The U.S. and Japan signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in July 1858, and in February 1860 three samurai ambassadors and their entourage of 74 took a U.S. Navy frigate across the Pacific en route to Washington, where they would exchange the treaty’s instruments of ratification with the U.S. State Department.
The Fall of the Samurai in Late Tokugawa Japan | Guided History
A Samurai bearing typical sword and armor, ca. 1860. Samurai: The Code of the Warrior does an excellent job of summarizing every aspect of the samurai culture. Topics range from the daily life of samurai, to their military strategies, to their resolute Bushido philosophy.
Satsuma Rebellion - Wikipedia
The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the Seinan War (Japanese: 西南戦争, Hepburn: Seinan Sensō, lit. 'Southwestern War'), was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era.
The last Japanese samurai in color images, 1860-1900
2021年4月16日 · The last Japanese samurai in color images, 1860-1900. The samurai were a class of people who served the aristocracy with arms. The word first appeared in a document of the Heian period; before that time such people had been called mono-no-fu or bushi.
The 1860s Boshin War in Japan - ThoughtCo
2019年10月31日 · The Boshin War lasted only two years, between 1868 and 1869, and pitted Japanese samurai and nobles against the reigning Tokugawa regime, wherein the samurai wanted to overthrow the shogun and return political power to the emperor.
‘Samurai in New York’ at Museum of the City of ... - The New York Times
2010年8月26日 · An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York returns to 1860 and the visit of a delegation of more than 70 samurai, the first Japanese to leave their closed nation in more than 200 years...
When the Samurai came to America - Engelsberg ideas
2023年2月22日 · The 1860 embassy comprised seventy seven samurai. It was led by Ambassador Shinmi Masaoki, Lord of Buzen, and Vice-Ambassador Muragaki Norimasa, Lord of Awaji. The group left Japan aboard the USS Powhatan, with a slightly larger escort group travelling aboard the Japanese warship Kanrin-maru, newly purchased from the Dutch.
Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs Reveal the Last Days of Samurai …
2015年11月3日 · He arrived in Japan in 1863, at the very twilight of the era of the samurai, a time he documented evocatively with a series of hand-colored photographs of subjects like 'kimonos, parasols, baby’s toys, basket sellers, courtesans at rest and a samurai gang ready for action,' as the Guardian lists them in their gallery of Beato's Japanese work.
Felice Beato | Samurai, Yokohama | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This straightforward but intense study of an anonymous samurai dates from early in Beato's period in Japan, and prior to the devastating fire that destroyed his studio and most of Yokohama in October 1866.