Ōtaki Domain
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Ōtaki Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of the Edo period, located in Kazusa Province, Japan. It was centered on Ōtaki Castle in what is now the town of Ōtaki, Chiba.
Ōtaki Castle, administrative center of Ōtaki Domain
Boshin War
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The Boshin War, sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seek
Ōtaki Domain
…Meiji Restoration. The final daimyo of Ōtaki Domain, Ōkōchi Masatada, initially fought for the pro-Tokugawa forces at the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in the Boshin War, but later changed his allegiance to the new Meiji government. He was appointed domain governor under the new administration, until the abolition of…
The Battle of Ueno
The shogunate's Kanrin Maru, Japan's first screw-driven steam warship, 1855. The shogunate pursued modernization, but was faced by growing internal discontent against the harm to national sovereignty brought on by contact with Westerners.
Bakufu troops near Mount Fuji in 1867. The painting by French officer Jules Brunet shows an eclectic combination of Western and Japanese equipment.
Guns of the Boshin War, from top to bottom: a Snider, a Starr, and an Minié rifle