Kōbu gattai (公武合体, Union of the Imperial Court and the Shogunate) was a policy in the Bakumatsu era of Japanese history aiming to strengthen Japan against...

Imperial Court, Nagano Shuzen, approached him with the idea of kōbu gattai. Kōbu gattai was a policy binding Kyoto and Edo closer together to shore up...

effectively held the power in Satsuma. Hisamitsu followed a policy of Kōbu gattai, or "unity between the shogunate and the imperial court". The marriage...

Incident. To win over the Hitotsubashi faction, the shogunate advocated a Kōbu gattai (公武合体, Union of the Imperial Court and the Shogunate) and welcomed Kazunomiya...

rōjū and began to have power, and they suggested the marriage for the Kōbu gattai, the settlement of the imperial court and the shogunate. Although the...

increasingly Kyoto-centered politics of the 1860s; he was a part of the kōbu-gattai political faction. It was during Hisamitsu's return from a stay in Edo...

residence in 1861. He disagreed with the domain's official policy of kōbu gattai (reconciliation between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate)...

the position of tōbaku (倒幕, overthrowing the shogunate), as opposed to kōbu gattai (公武合体, unity of the Imperial court and the Shogunate) and hanbaku (opposition...

must be discussed with Tenshoin, as Iemochi's mother. As part of the kōbu gattai ("Union of Court and Bakufu") movement, On 11 February 1862, Iemochi...

during the period preceding the Meiji Restoration and was part of the kōbu gattai, the movement opposed by the Revere the Emperor, Expel the Foreigner...

nobles who escaped to Chōshū Domain after members of the pro-shogunate kōbu gattai faction staged a coup in 1863. After the Meiji Restoration, he was appointed...

the rebellious Chōshū Domain. They were instrumental figures in the kōbu gattai political party, which sought a reconciliation between the shogunate...

reinforcing the Bakufu through collaboration with the Imperial administration (Kōbu gattai). In July 1864, Shōzan and a few of his retainers were on their way to...

the Bakufu to soften its stance, and to adopt a compromise policy of kōbu gattai ("Union of the Emperor and the Shogun") suggested by Satsuma Domain and...

member of the conciliatory kōbu-gattai (公武合体 union of court and bakufu) party. Late in Bunkyū 3 (1863), as a proponent of kōbu-gattai, he was made a member...

August 1858, and she was given Junior Third Rank. In 1862, as part of the Kōbu Gattai ("Union of Court and Bakufu") movement, Iemochi was married to Imperial...

technology and weaponry which would help guard its independence, and also the Kōbu gattai policy of uniting the shogunate and imperial court. He dismissed Takechi's...

Sonnō Jōi movement in the domain. Initially a strong supporter of the Kōbu gattai movement to join the shogunate with the Imperial House of Japan, he later...

Emperor while preserving the shōgun's leadership role, a system known as kōbu gattai. Fearing the growing power of the Satsuma and Chōshū daimyōs, other daimyōs...

technology and weaponry which would help guard its independence, and also the Kōbu gattai policy of uniting the shogunate and imperial court. He dismissed Takechi's...

pleased to see his arrival, and had great hopes for him as an agent of the Kōbu gattai (公武合体) movement to promote renewed cooperation between the Court and...

were seen near Hirado's shores. Politically, he supported the moderate Kōbu Gattai policy of attempting to reconcile the Tokugawa Bakufu with the Imperial...

wanted to forge stronger links between the shogunate and the emperor (the kōbu gattai policy). Around 60 to 70 samurai, led by Arima Shinshichi and including...

served as Kyoto Shoshidai and worked with Ii Naosuke to implement the Kōbu gattai between the shogunate and the Imperial Court and suppress the Mito rebellion...

his tenure as rōjū he was influential in the Bunsei reforms and the Kōbu gattai movement to strengthen the shogunate through union with the Imperial...

Sanefumi, who had known his grandfather in Kyoto from the days of the Kōbu gattai movement, and Kodama brought the young Hayashi and his mother to live...

During that time, he was influential in the Bunsei reforms and the Kōbu gattai movement. His wife was a daughter of Matsudaira Sadanobu of Shirakawa...

which supported the Shogunate, and those who supported the concept of Kōbu gattai; however, sentiment towards to shogunate was only lukewarm. During the...

foreigners. After Chōshū forces were driven from Kyoto by supporters of the kōbu gattai movement, he went into exile with Sanjō Sanetomi. During this period...

Naomasa attempted to maintain a policy of neutrality between the moderate Kōbu Gattai faction which wished to reconcile the Tokugawa shogunate with the Imperial...