Viking1066
Master Sergeant
Ki-45 Kai Special Attack of 4th Sentai led by 2nd Lt. Misoaburo Yamamoto YARE
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Choshi Joshi Teishintai with Tachikawa Ki-36 1944 courtesy of the net. View attachment 774261
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Actually not the Tachikawa Ki-36 but the Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia.
Do I correctly understand that these events contributed rationale for dissolving the Shogunate and eventually the beginning of the Meiji period?It's a very historic place for the Japanese people.
Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) 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.
Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties with other Western countries. The Harris Treaty was signed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in defiance of Emperor Kōmei's instructions not to sign the treaty, thus branding the Shogunate as having betrayed the emperor and by extension, the country. From 1859, the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Yokohama became open to foreign traders as a consequence of the treaties.
Great insight, ZippythehogDo I correctly understand that these events contributed rationale for dissolving the Shogunate and eventually the beginning of the Meiji period?