Battle of Toba-Fushimi

Japanese: 鳥羽･伏見の戦 - とばふしみのたたかい

The first civil war of the Boshin War. After the restoration of imperial rule, the anti-shogunate faction, including Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi, suppressed the public deliberation faction and ordered the shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, to resign and hand over his land. Yoshinobu did not accept this and retreated to Osaka to regain control, while the public deliberation faction, which compromised with Yoshinobu, was regaining influence within the new government. Feeling a growing sense of crisis, Saigo and others engineered a provocation in the Kanto region, and the shogunate, following this, burned down the residence of the Satsuma clan in Edo and decided to raise an army and march into Kyoto. On January 26, 1868 (January 2, 4th year of the Keio era), 15,000 soldiers, including the shogunate soldiers and soldiers from the Aizu and Kuwana clans, marched north along the Toba-Fushimi Kaido road.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

戊辰戦争最初の内乱。王政復古ののち，西郷隆盛や大久保利通らの討幕派は，公議政体派を抑え，将軍徳川慶喜に辞官納地を命じた。これを受諾しない慶喜は大坂に退いて主導権回復を策し，また新政府内部でも慶喜と妥協する公議政体派が勢力を回復しつつあった。危機感を強くした西郷らは，関東で挑発を工作し，これにのった幕府は，江戸の薩摩藩邸を焼討ちし，挙兵入京を決め，1868年1月26日(慶応4年1月2日)，幕兵，会津･桑名両藩兵ら1万5000人を鳥羽伏見街道から北上させた。

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