Satsuma-Choshu Alliance - Satcho Ume

Japanese: 薩長同盟 - さっちょうどうめい

This alliance between the Satsuma and Choshu clans was also called the Satsuma-Choshu Reconciliation Alliance. In August 1863, the Choshu clan lost control over the Imperial Court due to the Satsuma clan's argument for a unification of the Imperial Court and the Shogunate. The Choshu clan was bombarded by the Japanese fleet and attacked by the Shogunate's Choshu Expeditionary Forces, and surrendered. The lord of the clan and others were punished by the Imperial Court. However, as anti-Shogunate forces rose within the Satsuma clan and the Shogunate's plan to attack Satsuma and Choshu was leaked, the Satsuma and Choshu clans resolved their previous conflicts with the help of Ryoma Sakamoto, who was from the Tosa clan, and in January 1866, they made an agreement to cooperate in order to overthrow the Shogunate. The meeting was held at the Satsuma clan residence in Kyoto, where Komatsu Tatewaki and Saigo Takamori represented the Satsuma clan, and Katsura Kogoro (→Kido Takayoshi) represented the Choshu clan. Based on the offensive and defensive alliance that was formed at this time, the Choshu clan won the Second Bakufu-Choshu War.

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Japanese:

薩長和解連合ともいわれる討幕のための薩摩，長州両藩の盟約。文久3 (1863) 年8月，薩摩藩の公武合体論に押され朝廷に対する支配権を失った長州藩は，以後列国艦隊による砲撃，幕府征長軍の攻撃を受けて降伏し，藩主以下朝譴をこうむった。しかし，薩摩藩内に討幕派が台頭し，また幕府の薩長討伐計画が漏れるに及び，薩長両藩は土佐藩出身の坂本龍馬らの仲介のもとにこれまでの対立反目を解消し，慶応2 (66) 年1月，討幕のため提携の約を結んだ。京都の薩摩藩邸で薩摩藩側から小松帯刀，西郷隆盛，長州藩側から桂小五郎 (→木戸孝允 ) らがそれぞれ代表として会見した。この際の攻守同盟に基づき，長州藩は第2次幕長戦争に勝利を収めた。

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