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Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishis planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

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Ikedaya incident

1864 violent confrontation between shishi political activists and police in Kyoto, Japan

The Ikedaya incident , also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the shishi which included masterless samurai (rōnin) formally employed by the Chōshū, Tosa and Higo domains (han), and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's special police force in…
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Chōshū Domain

Administrative division in Japan (1600–1871)

The Chōshū Domain , also known as the Hagi Domain , was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871.
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Shishi (Japan)

Japanese organization during the Edo period

Shishi (志士), sometimes known as Ishin Shishi (維新志士), were a group of Japanese political activists of the late Edo period. While it is usually applied to the anti-shogunate, pro-sonnō jōi samurai primarily from the southwestern clans of Satsuma, Chōshū, and Tosa, the term shishi…
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Shinsengumi

19th century Japanese special police force

The Shinsengumi was a small secret police organization, elite group of swordsmen that was organized by commoners and low rank samurai, commissioned by the bakufu during Japan's Bakumatsu period in 1863. It was active until 1869. It was founded to protect the shogunate…
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Kyoto

City in the Kansai region of Japan

Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of…
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