Assassination at Sakurada Gate – Abbreviated Japanese History -

Title : Assassination at Sakurada Gate - Abbreviated Japanese History

Date : 1885.

Details : Adachi Ginko: Assassination at Sakurada Gate - Abbreviated Japanese History - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : From the series "Dai Nihon Shi Ryaku Zue" ("Picture of Abbreviated Japanese History"). No. 96. The group of Mito samurai group assassinated Ii Naosuke, the high ranking officer in Tokugawa Shogunate, who was the main advocate of the opening of Japan to the rest of the world. The story in Japanese on the backside of the print.

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