1858-60 removal of internal opposition in Tokugawa Japan
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 1858 and 1860,[a] during which the Tokugawa shogunate imprisoned, executed, or exiled those who did not support its authority and foreign trade policies.[1] The purge was undertaken by Ii Naosuke in opposition to Imperial Loyalists.
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The AnseiPurge (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...
Treaty of Kanagawa. 1858 (Ansei 5): Beginning of AnseiPurge at the order of Ii Naosuke on behalf of the bakufu. 1860 (Ansei 7): Fire at Edo Castle. March...
decree passed which allowed him to conduct the AnseiPurge. During the rest of 1858 and into 1859 Naosuke purged over 100 officials from the bakufu, the imperial...
as the AnseiPurge. Tairō Ii Naosuke, who had signed the Harris Treaty and tried to eliminate opposition to Westernization with the AnseiPurge, was himself...
these treaties, but the shogunate captured and executed them in the AnseiPurge. In retaliation, Hitotsubashi samurai assassinated Ii Naosuke, the tairō...
was chosen, and became the 14th shōgun Iemochi. Soon after, during the AnseiPurge, Yoshinobu and others who supported him were placed under house arrest...
Hashimoto Sanai and Yoshida Shōin, who were executed as a result of the AnseiPurge. Sugita Genpaku, Nakagawa Jun'an, Katsuragawa Hoshū and their colleagues...
supported Tokugawa Iemochi, and succeeded. These quarrels ended in the AnseiPurge. In the difficult situation at the end of the Edo period, the problem...
the new Kochi Prefecture. Japan portal History portal Biography portal Anseipurge Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yamauchi Yōdō. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric...
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during the final illness of Shōgun Tokugawa Iesada. When Ii launched the AnseiPurge, the prince was condemned to perpetual confinement at Shōkoku-ji and...
control of the shōgun at Edo). When his teacher was arrested during the AnseiPurge in 1859, Takasugi visited him in jail. Shōin was later executed on 21...
the Tokugawa shogunate he purged over 100 people in an effort to quiet opposition in what became known as the AnseiPurge. Hashimoto was one of those...
critics arose after the controversial appointment, and Ii initiated the AnseiPurge to quiet critics of his choices. This, in turn, led to an assassination...
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...
taking a leading role in difficult situations, such as the AnseiPurge, the ratification of the Ansei Treaties, and the opposition to Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu...
successful in maintaining order, his purge of Nariaki supporters in the domains and the court, the AnseiPurge, drove young Mito radicals to assassinate...
Naosuke. This act was censured, everyone who opposed Ii Naosuke was purged (the AnseiPurge). For his part Yoshikatsu was placed under house arrest, and he...
Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce and other Ansei Treaties were signed, resulting in AnseiPurge. 1860 9 February Ambassador Shinmi Masaoki sets sail...
(宇和島 等覚寺) The emblem (mon) of the Date clan The Marquis Date Munenari Anseipurge Date clan Date Munenari 伊達宗城. Date Munenari zaikyō nikki. (Tokyo: Nihon...
known as Yamauchi Yōdō) was forced into retirement in 1859 due to the AnseiPurge undertaken by the tairō Ii Naosuke, making Toyonori the 16th daimyō....
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