A wooden notice resembling a kosatsu (signboard that announced official edicts in feudal Japan) was recently erected outside ...
was established to bring an end to the feudal age. Harry Parkes, a British minister to Japan, was on his way to the Kyoto Imperial Palace for an audience with Emperor Meiji when he was attacked ...
When the Shogun was not in residence, the Nijo Zaiban samurai guards, who were dispatched from the Shogun's capital ... during which Japan developed very rapidly from a feudal society into the ...