The Meiji Restoration
Issues of the 1860s Adjustments to treaties and international trade –Silver drain Strengthening of Satsuma and Choshu Presence of foreigners –Richardson Affair, 1862 –Bombardment of Kagoshima, 1863 –Choshu bombardment of ships in Straits of Shimonoseki, 1863; retaliation 1864
Issues of the 1860s (cont.) Growing prestige of Imperial court –Kobu gattai - union of Court and bakufu Antiforeignism –Sonno joi - revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians Foreign political interference –French in Edo - Leon Roches –British in Satsuma and Choshu - Harry Parkes
The Restoration movement Assassination of Ii Naosuke, March 1860 Leadership of Satsuma and Choshu Han –Bakufu failure to subdue them France and Britain take sides New Emperor (Meiji), February 1867 Shogun Tokugawa Keiki resigns, November 1867 –Satsuma and Choshu want more - lands and defenses Seizure of Imperial Palace, January 3, 1868 Restoration wars –Toba Fushimi, January 1868 –Tokugawa Navy holdouts, surrender June 1869
Leading personalities of the Meiji Restoration Choshu –Kido Koin ( ) –Ito Hirobumi ( ) –Yamagara Aritomo ( ) –Inoue Kaoru ( ) Satsuma –Saigo Takamori ( ) –Okubo Toshimichi ( ) –Matsukata Masayoshi ( ) Tosa –Itagaki Taisuke ( ) Hizen –Okuma Shigenobu ( )
Nature of the new regime Young, samurai leadership Charter Oath, 1868