Samurai Assassins

"Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868

Romulus Hillsborough (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6880-2 (ISBN)

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Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder" - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration (1853-1868). This first-ever account in English of the Restoration and the assassins who carried it out details one of the most volatile periods in Japanese history - also known as "the dawn of modern Japan".

Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and moral philosophy of the men behind the revolution--including bushidō or "the way of the warrior"--informed their actions and would become the foundation of the emperor-worship of World War II.

This first-ever account in English of the assassins who drove the revolution details one of the most volatile periods in Japanese history--also known as "the dawn of modern Japan."

Having spent sixteen years studying and working in Japan as a writer and journalist, Romulus Hillsborough now lives in Northern California.

Table of Contents

Note on Dates, Names, Romanization and Pronunciation

Map of Japan

Map of Kyōto

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Assassination of Ii Naosuké and the Beginning of the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu

1. The Background of the Assassination of Ii Naosuké

2. The Conspiracy to Assassinate Ii Naosuké

3. The Assassination of Ii Naosuké

Part II: The Rise and Fall of Takéchi Hanpeita and the Tosa Loyalist Party

4. The Gap

5. Takéchi Hanpeita and His Tosa Loyalist Party

6. The Assassination of Yoshida Tōyō

7. “Divine Punishment”

8. Lord Yōdō’s Comeback

9. The Assassination of Anégakōji Kintomo

10. Lord Yōdō’s Crackdown

11. In Prison (1)

12. The Failed Rebellions of Chōshū and Mito

13. In Prison (2)

14. The Stoicism of a Samurai: Takéchi Hanpeita’s Death

Part III: The Assassination of Sakamoto Ryōma

15. Ryōma’s Greatest Achievements

16. The Motives

17. Unsolved Mystery—To a Certain Extent

18. The Assassins

19. The Attack

20. The Aftermath

21. Civil War

22. “The Man Who Killed Sakamoto Ryōma”

Epilogue: The Second Existential Crisis of the Samurai Class

Glossary

Era Names and Dates

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	12 photos, 2 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-6880-9 / 1476668809
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6880-2 / 9781476668802
Zustand	Neuware