Sakamoto Ryōma
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Sakamoto Ryōma was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
Ryoma c. 1860s
Sakamoto Ryōma standing (c. 1866 - 1867) and Ryōma's favored western footwear can be seen
Ryōma's Nº 2 Army revolver
The Teradaya Inn in Kyoto, where Sakamoto was attacked in a failed assassination attempt, before being fatally injured at Omiya Inn.
Shinsengumi
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The Shinsengumi was a small secret police organization, an elite group of swordsmen organized by commoners and low-ranking samurai, commissioned by the bakufu during Japan's Bakumatsu period in 1863.
Sakamoto Ryōma
…alias Saitani Umetarō (才谷梅太郎), he worked against the Bakufu, the government of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was often hunted by their supporters and the Shinsengumi. Sakamoto advocated for democracy, Japanese nationalism, return of power to the Imperial Court, abolition of feudalism, and moderate modernization and…
Ancient Kondō Isami's quarters at Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. One of the former Shinsengumi headquarters
Mannequins dressed in Shinsengumi uniform
Coat of mail and helmet of Kondō Isami