OK guys, here's something interesting.
It seems that people right around the fall of the Shogunate (1868 or so)
would do prints of current events and disguise them under the name of some
other famous historical event. For example,
http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3959/
Disguised as something related to the Kamakura era (1200s), but if you look
closely at the crests of the people in the picture (click to get larger
image), you can tell that these are figures representing the domains that
took the fight of the Ishin Shishi northward. In other words, these are the
people representing the domains who, among other things, leveled Nagaoka,
sent the survivors of Aizu to Shimokita, and killed Hijikata at
Hakodate...So far, the only crest that's really easily identifiable is that
of the Mouri, lords of Choshuu-- the guy in the blue court costume on the
far left of the painting.
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http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3956/
Called "The Spring Incident at Honnoji" (includes a brief note on the
"renaming" trend), after the incident in which Oda Nobunaga was killed by
Akechi Mitsuhide. HOWEVER, this, and
http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3957/ (called "Ishiyama
Honganji Kassen", the "Decisive Battle of Ishiyama Honganji", another of
Nobunaga's battles), are both cleverly disguised prints of the Shogitai's
stand at the Kaneiji Temple in Ueno.
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http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3953/chi05_3953.jpg
http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3954/
Emperor's procession to Edo Castle
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http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi05/chi05_3952/
Tokugawa Yoshinobu returns.
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http://cork.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko10/b10_8324/b10_8324.jpg
SEC Take note-- seems to be TMPD officers fighting former samurai. Not in
Satsuma, though-- I think these guys are enforcing the anti-sword law.
That's all for now.
--M.
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