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Why did the Aizu domain face a siege by the new imperial government in 1868? Rather than reducing the Aizu War to the Byakkotai, this article traces the political conflict inherited from Kyoto, failed negotiations after Toba-Fushimi, the northeastern alliance, the fronts at Shirakawa, Nihonmatsu, and Bonari Pass, and the surrender of Tsurugajo Castle.
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Born into a former Morioka domain samurai family but legally registered as a commoner, Hara Takashi became prime minister while holding neither a peerage nor a seat in the House of Peers. Official records and Diet proceedings reveal both the achievements and limits of the political network he built across journalism, diplomacy, bureaucracy, the Seiyukai party, and local administration.
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From years of study at Umoreginoya to leadership of the shogunate, this article traces Ii Naosuke's role in the 1858 commercial treaty, the shogunal succession, the Ansei Purge, his assassination at Sakuradamon, and the later revision of the unequal treaties.
読む史劇
京都守護職、奥羽諸藩の嘆願、母成峠突破、約一か月の籠城はどうつながったのか
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幕末慶応4年／明治元年（1868）、会津藩はなぜ新政府軍との籠城戦へ追い込まれたのか。京都守護職以来の政治的対立、鳥羽・伏見後の交渉、奥羽越列藩同盟、白河・二本松・母成峠、鶴ヶ城包囲と降伏を、白虎隊だけに縮めず東北の広域戦線としてたどる。
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大正時代盛岡藩士の家に生まれながら戸籍上は平民となり、無爵位の現職衆議院議員として首相に就いた原敬。新聞、外交、官僚、政友会、地方行政をつないだ政治の成果と限界を、公的資料と議会記録からたどる。
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幕末埋木舎での前半生から大老就任、日米修好通商条約、将軍継嗣、安政の大獄、桜田門外の変、条約改正までを公的資料でたどり、井伊直弼の危機認識と政策の手段を分けて検証する。
