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Wikipedia: Bakumatsu are the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate came to an end. It is characterized by major events occurring between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and transitioned from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. The major ideological/political divide during this period was between the pro-imperialist ishin shishi and the shogunate forces, including the elite Shinsengumi (newly selected corps) swordsmen.
![[Japanese drawing of the HMS Phaeton in Nagasaki harbour in 1808.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Phaeton_28frigate_29_s.jpg "Japanese drawing of the HMS Phaeton in Nagasaki harbour in 1808.")
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![[Allegory of inflation and soaring prices during the Bakumatsu era.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Allegory_of_inflation_during_the_Bakumatsu_era_s.jpg "Allegory of inflation and soaring prices during the Bakumatsu era.")
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![[Choshu cannons firing on Western shipping in Shimonoseki. Japanese painting.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/ShimonosekiShooting_s.jpg "Choshu cannons firing on Western shipping in Shimonoseki. Japanese painting.")
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![[A picture of Bombardment of Kagoshima]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/KagoshimaBirdView_s.jpg "A picture of Bombardment of Kagoshima")
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![[Foreign ships in Yokohama harbor.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/YokohamaTradersSadahide1861_s.jpg "Foreign ships in Yokohama harbor.")
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![[Secret imperial order of overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate (1867).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Secret_imperial_order_of_overthrow_the_Tokugawa_Shogunate_s.jpg "Secret imperial order of overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate (1867).")
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![[Shogunate troops moving to quell the Mito rebellion in 1864.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bakumatsu_Hoheitai_1864_s.jpg "Shogunate troops moving to quell the Mito rebellion in 1864.")
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![[Shogunate Samurai troops in the Second Chōshū expedition.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Samurai_troops_in_the_Second_Choshu_expedition_s.jpg "Shogunate Samurai troops in the Second Chōshū expedition.")
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![[Assassination of Prime Minister Ii Naosuke in the Sakuradamon incident (1860).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Arimura_Jisaemon_s.jpg "Assassination of Prime Minister Ii Naosuke in the Sakuradamon incident (1860).")
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![[Hotta Masayoshi (1810–1864).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hotta_s.jpg "Hotta Masayoshi (1810–1864).")
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