Boshin is the designation for the fifth year of a sexagenary cycle in traditional East Asian calendars. The war was fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court. Around 120,000 men were mobilized during the conflict, and of these about 8,200 were killed. The victorious imperial faction abandoned its objective of expelling foreigners from Japan and adopted a policy of continued modernization.
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Boshin is the designation for the fifth year of a sexagenary cycle in traditional East Asian calendars. The war was fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court. Around 120,000 men were mobilized during the conflict, and of these about 8,200 were killed. In the end, the victorious imperial faction abandoned its objective of expelling foreigners from Japan and instead adopted a policy of continued modernization with an eye to eventual renegotiation of the unequal treaties with the Western powers. The Boshin War started in the fourth year of the Keiō era, which also became the first year. of the Meiji era in October of that year, and ended in the second year. The war has been romanticized as a \”bloodless revolution\”, because of the small number of casualties. It is also known as the Battle of Hakodate, which took place in 1869. It was won by the imperial faction, who were later given positions of responsibility under the new government. The Battle of Ezo, which occurred in 1871, was the last battle of the war. It ended the military phase of the Meiji Restoration, and the beginning of the modern era of Japan. It also led to the establishment of the Empire of Japan, which ruled until the end of World War II in 1945. The Bashin War was the first of many wars between Japan and the West, including the First Sino-Japanese War and the Second Sino–Japanese War of 1868-1869.
The battle was also the first to be fought in the island of Honshū, which was later known as Hokkaidō, where it was known as Ezo. It began in the year 1868, and was followed by a series of battles in the early 1870s. The final battle was fought in October 1869, which ended the war in the month of October. The defeat of the Imperial faction left imperial rule supreme throughout the whole of Japan for the first time in more than a century. The end of the Boshin war was marked by the fall of Edo, the capital of the Edo Shogunate, to the Japanese army. The Shogunate was overthrown by the Emperor Meiji, who ruled until his death in 1873. The Meiji Restoration was the most significant event in the history of Japan and led to a period of rapid Westernization in the country. In 1864, English trader Charles Lennox Richardson, whose death had inspired the order to expel foreigners, launched an attack on the shogunal government. He was killed in the battle of Shimonoseki, but his actions were successfully countered by armed men of the Shimonoski government. After the death of Lennox, the Japanese government had to pay an indemnity of one hundred thousand pounds to an English trader. The order inspired attacks against the shogunates against foreigners in Japan and in 1864.
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