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3 unusual facts about Boshin War


Gun Blaze West

Viu and Will come across a travelling circus, where the star attraction is a young girl named Colice, who is in fact a native of Japan who had to flee the country after her home was destroyed in the Boshin War.

Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars

Abel-Nicolas Bergasse Dupetit Thouars (1832–1890), a French Navy admiral who participated to the Boshin War in Japan.

Restoration War

Boshin War or the Japanese Meiji Restoration War (1868–1869)


Rifled breech loader

The Imperial Japanese Army used Armstrong cannon during the Boshin War to devastate the Aizu castle town and force its inhabitants to surrender quickly, and British Armstrong light field guns proved deadly against Chinese forces in the Second Opium War.

The Dagger of Kamui

The movie is very accurate in its depictions of pre-Meiji Japan, Russia, and the United States, and deals directly with historical events such as the Boshin War, and historical figures such as Saigō Takamori, Andō Shōzan, Oguri Kōzukenosuke Tadamasa, Geronimo, and Mark Twain.


see also

Hayashi Gonsuke

Hayashi Yasusada, (1806-1868) also known as "Hayashi Gonsuke", samurai general with Aizu Domain in the Boshin War

Katsunuma

Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma, battle between pro-Imperial and Tokugawa shogunate forces during the Boshin War in Japan

Yamamoto Yaeko

Doshisha students from Satsuma and Chōshū Domain was not warmly received by her, since they attacked Aizu during the Boshin War.