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Index
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Author’s Note
Introduction
Prologue
Book 1: The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853–1868)
PART I: THE OUTSIDER
CHAPTER 1 The Beginning of the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu
CHAPTER 2 The Outsider
CHAPTER 3 The Nagasaki Naval Academy
CHAPTER 4 The Rise of Ii Naosuké
CHAPTER 5 The Transpacific Voyage—“… for the glory of the Japanese navy”
CHAPTER 6 Katsu Kaishū’s San Francisco Experience
CHAPTER 7 The Onset of the Age of Terror
PART II: THE OUTSIDER STEPS IN
CHAPTER 8 A Brief Discussion on Bushidō
CHAPTER 9 “The Group of Four”
CHAPTER 10 Satsuma Han
CHAPTER 11 The Commissioner and the Outlaw
CHAPTER 12 Chōshū’s Yoshida Shōin and Takasugi Shinsaku
CHAPTER 13 “Went up to the castle”
CHAPTER 14 Chōshū on the Brink
CHAPTER 15 “… along came Saigō”
PART III: THE OUTSIDER STEPS BACK
CHAPTER 16 “unexpected folly”
CHAPTER 17 The Road to Revolution: The Rise of Takasugi Shinsaku’s Rebel Army
CHAPTER 18 Rumors of Tyranny: The Bakufu Gone Awry
CHAPTER 19 The Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance
CHAPTER 20 “The Bakufu … must willingly fall”
CHAPTER 21 Peace Talks with Chōshū
CHAPTER 22 The Shōgun, the Emperor, and the Opposition at Court
CHAPTER 23 Yoshinobu Scores a Victory
CHAPTER 24 Gathering Forces in the “Great Drama”
CHAPTER 25 The Restoration of Imperial Rule and the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu
Book 2: The Rise of Imperial Japan (1868–1878)
PART IV: THE OUTSIDER TAKES CONTROL
CHAPTER 26 Civil War
CHAPTER 27 Yoshinobu Capitulates
CHAPTER 28 Kaishū vs. Saigō (1): The Challenge
CHAPTER 29 Kaishū vs. Saigō (2): The Messenger
CHAPTER 30 Kaishū vs. Saigō (3): The Talks
CHAPTER 31 The Surrender of Edo Castle
PART V: THE OUTSIDER AND THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 32 “an abomination”
CHAPTER 33 The End of the Boshin War and the Onset of the Meiji Era
CHAPTER 34 Saigō and the Meiji Government (1): The Return
CHAPTER 35 Saigō and the Meiji Government (2): The Departure
CHAPTER 36 Samurai Revolt, Foreign Adventure
CHAPTER 37 Saigō and the Meiji Government (3): The Rebellion
Epilogue The Shōgun’s Last Samurai
Appendix On the Value of Katsu Kaishū’s Histories, Biographies, and Memoirs
Glossary
Main Characters
Important Feudal Domains
Important Japanese Terms
Sources from Katsu Kaishū
Abbreviations of Sources Cited
Bibliography
Index
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