The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer

Author:Lesley Downer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

The epitome of chic was the Fukagawa geisha wearing clogs with no socks on a snowy day.

CHAPTER 8

Bakumatsu: Fall of the Tokugawa

1853–1868

The advent of foreigners rang the knell of the Shogun’s power and of the feudal system.

Algernon Mitford, Feudalism in Japan, November 1911

The arrival of Westerners barging in on Japan’s long isolation ignited smoldering unrest. The southwestern clans of Satsuma and Chōshū took the lead in bringing about regime change. The Western powers, particularly the British, played a pivotal role in deciding what form Japan would take at the end of it. And thus the Meiji Restoration—which should be called a revolution—took place.

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