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The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the Seinan War (Japanese: 西南戦争, Hepburn: Seinan Sensō, lit. ' Southwestern War ' ) , was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of Japan , nine years into the Meiji era .
The Battle of Shiroyama (城山の戦い, Shiroyama no tatakai) took place on 24 September 1877, in Kagoshima, Japan. [3] It was the final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion, where the heavily outnumbered samurai under Saigō Takamori made their last stand against Imperial Japanese Army troops under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo and Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi.
Later that year he began using the art name Adachi Ginkō. [d] [3] Ginkō produced in a variety of genres, including bijin-ga portraits of beauties, landscapes, book illustrations, and satirical works. A large number of his works dealt with contemporary events such as the Satsuma Rebellion and the First Sino-Japanese War.
He created a range of impressions and scenes of the Satsuma Rebellion and Saigō Takamori. [11] Some of these prints illustrated the period of domestic unrest and other subjects of topical interest, including prints like the 1882 image of the Imo Incident, also known as the Jingo Incident (壬午事変, jingo jihen) at right.
With the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, in which the old feudal order made one last attempt to stop the new Japan, newspaper circulation soared, and woodblock artists were in demand, with Yoshitoshi earning much attention. In late 1877, he took up with a new mistress, the geisha Oraku; like Okoto, she sold her clothes and possessions to support him ...
In 1887, he produced a nishiki-e print of the Satsuma Rebellion. [4] From 1893, he operated a shop called Gahakudo for a time, which he later handed over to his fellow disciple Matsui Eikichi . He later worked on woodblock prints and crepe books intended for foreign markets published by Hasegawa Takejirō and his second son Nishinomiya Yosaku ...
Campaign map of the Boshin War (1868–69). The western domains of Satsuma, Chōshū and Tosa (in red) joined forces to defeat the shogunate forces at the Battle of Toba–Fushimi, and then progressively took control of the rest of Japan until the final stand-off in the northern island of Hokkaidō.
Saigō Kokichi (西郷 小吉) was born in Kajiya, Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, the eldest son of samurai squire (koshōkumi) Saigō Kichibē and his wife Masa. [2] He had six siblings and his younger brother Ryūkō later became Marshal-Admiral Marquis Saigō Jūdō.