Jules Brunet
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Jules Brunet was a French military officer who served the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War in Japan. Originally sent to Japan as a horse artillery instructor with the French military mission o
Jules Brunet in Japan, 1868
Jules Brunet in 1890
General Jules Brunet (center, hat in hand), Chief of Staff of the French Minister of War, 1898
Japanese sailors on the Chōgei, 13 May 1867
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
The Battle of Ueno, Yoshimori Utagawa, 1869
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