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The shaguma (赤熊, "red bear") was a type of headgear worn by the officers of the Imperial Japanese Army troops in the Boshin War (1868–69). The headgear was quite peculiar, being a sort of wig composed of long, dyed yak hair and held in place by a chin-strap.
Boshin (戊辰) is the designation for the fifth year of a sexagenary cycle in traditional East Asian calendars. [3] Although the war lasted for over a year, Boshin refers to the year that the war started in. The characters 戊辰 can also be read as tsuchinoe-tatsu in Japanese, literally "Elder Brother of Earth-Dragon". [3]
Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社 or 靖國神社, Yasukuni Jinja, lit. ' Peaceful Country Shrine ') is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo.It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan, from the Boshin War of 1868–1869, to the two Sino-Japanese Wars, 1894–1895 and 1937–1945 respectively, and the First Indochina War of 1946–1954 ...
Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion. This list does not include documentaries, short films. This list does not include documentaries, short films.
Russo-Japanese War: The number of total Japanese dead in combat is put at around 47,000, with around 80,000 if disease is included; World War I: 1,455 Japanese were killed, mostly at the Battle of Tsingtao; World War II: Deaths Between 2,120,000 and 2,190,000 Imperial Armed Forces dead including non-combat deaths (includes 1,760,955 killed in ...
The Boshin War (1868−1869) — a civil war of the Meiji Restoration in Japan. The war ended Tokugawa shogunate rule and the Edo Period (1600−1868), and established Meiji oligarchy/Meiji government rule and the Empire of Japan period (1869−1945).
Thomas Blake Glover was born at 15 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland on 6 June 1838, the fifth of eight children, to Thomas Berry Glover (1806-1878), a coastguard officer from Vauxhall, London and Mary Findlay (1807-1887) from the parish of Fordyce, Banffshire.
Boshin War (WIA) Satsuma Rebellion Kawaji Toshiyoshi ( 川路 利良 , 17 June 1834 – 13 October 1879) , also known as Kawaji Toshikane , [ 1 ] was a Japanese military general, politician, and samurai.