• The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄, Ansei no taigoku, "Mass Incarceration of Ansei") was a multi-year event during the Bakumatsu period of Japanese history, between...
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    Treaty of Kanagawa. 1858 (Ansei 5): Beginning of Ansei Purge at the order of Ii Naosuke on behalf of the bakufu. 1860 (Ansei 7): Fire at Edo Castle. March...
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    decree passed which allowed him to conduct the Ansei Purge. During the rest of 1858 and into 1859 Naosuke purged over 100 officials from the bakufu, the imperial...
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    as the Ansei Purge. Tairō Ii Naosuke, who had signed the Harris Treaty and tried to eliminate opposition to Westernization with the Ansei Purge, was himself...
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    Narasaki Kenkichi. Her father was arrested and went to prison during the Ansei Purge. He died after being released from prison when she was 21 years old....
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    Hashimoto Sanai and Yoshida Shōin, who were executed as a result of the Ansei Purge. Sugita Genpaku, Nakagawa Jun'an, Katsuragawa Hoshū and their colleagues...
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    p. 11 n3. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tokugawa Nariaki. Ansei purge Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy...
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    was chosen, and became the 14th shōgun Iemochi. Soon after, during the Ansei Purge, Yoshinobu and others who supported him were placed under house arrest...
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    the Tokugawa shogunate he purged over 100 people in an effort to quiet opposition in what became known as the Ansei Purge. Hashimoto was one of those...
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    supported Tokugawa Iemochi, and succeeded. These quarrels ended in the Ansei Purge. In the difficult situation at the end of the Edo period, the problem...
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    the new Kochi Prefecture. Japan portal History portal Biography portal Ansei purge Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yamauchi Yōdō. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric...
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    Senior First Rank (May 16, 1901; posthumous) Japan portal History portal Ansei Purge Sengan-en Iwata, 29 Sakai. "Shimazu Nariakira". p222 Sakai. "Shimazu...
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  • Yamauchi Yōdō, who had been his backing, had fallen from power due to the Ansei Purge, and he was dissatisfied with his policy of reforming the domain system...
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    these treaties, but the shogunate captured and executed them in the Ansei Purge. In retaliation, Hitotsubashi samurai assassinated Ii Naosuke, the tairō...
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    control of the shōgun at Edo). When his teacher was arrested during the Ansei Purge in 1859, Takasugi visited him in jail. Shōin was later executed on 21...
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  • Edo. Gensai was present at the Kumamoto residence in Edo during the Ansei Purge. In the aftermath of Ii Naosuke's assassination, when a group of the...
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    during the final illness of Shōgun Tokugawa Iesada. When Ii launched the Ansei Purge, the prince was condemned to perpetual confinement at Shōkoku-ji and...
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  • Soon after Tomiko changed her name to Iemochi and became Shogun, the Ansei Purge occurred. As part of the Union of the Imperial Court and the Shogunate...
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    (宇和島 等覚寺) The emblem (mon) of the Date clan The Marquis Date Munenari Ansei purge Date clan Date Munenari 伊達宗城. Date Munenari zaikyō nikki. (Tokyo: Nihon...
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    Naosuke. This act was censured, everyone who opposed Ii Naosuke was purged (the Ansei Purge). For his part Yoshikatsu was placed under house arrest, and he...
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    Hitotsubashi faction which was opposed to Ii Naosuke, and during the Ansei purge of Hitotsubashi partisans, he was placed under house arrest within Sakura...
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  • to end this direct daimyō–Imperial Court collusion with a harsh purge (the "Ansei Purge") of those who did not support its authority and foreign trade...
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    authority of the Tokugawa shogunate against regional daimyōs through the Ansei Purge. He also made strong enemies in the dispute for the succession of Shōgun...
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    known as Yamauchi Yōdō) was forced into retirement in 1859 due to the Ansei Purge undertaken by the tairō Ii Naosuke, making Toyonori the 16th daimyō....
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  • critics arose after the controversial appointment, and Ii initiated the Ansei Purge to quiet critics of his choices. This, in turn, led to an assassination...
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    successful in maintaining order, his purge of Nariaki supporters in the domains and the court, the Ansei Purge, drove young Mito radicals to assassinate...
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  • womanizer. He is the son of the doctor Ryosen Tezuka in Azabu, Edo during the Ansei era who is a proponent of integrating Western medicine into Japan. Ryoan...
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    between bakufu arrangement and the renegade revitalizing cry lead to the Ansei Purge (1858–1860) which at last brought about the sad passing of Yoshida Shōin...
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  • Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce and other Ansei Treaties were signed, resulting in Ansei Purge. 1860 9 February Ambassador Shinmi Masaoki sets sail...
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  • (better known as Matsudaira Shungaku was forced into retirement during the Ansei Purge. Matsudaira Naoyasu (松平直静, February 23, 1848 – December 13, 1913) was...
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