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Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Assassination of Ii Naosuké and the Beginning of the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu

• Chapter 1: The Background of the Assassination of Ii Naosuké
• Chapter 2: The Conspiracy to Assassinate Ii Naosuké
• Chapter 3: The Assassination of Ii Naosuké

Part II: The Rise and Fall of Takéchi Hanpeita and the Tosa Loyalist Party

• Chapter 4: The Gap
• Chapter 5: Takéchi Hanpeita and His Tosa Loyalist Party
• Chapter 6: The Assassination of Yoshida Tōyō
• Chapter 7: “Divine Punishment”
• Chapter 8: Lord Yōdō’s Comeback
• Chapter 9: The Assassination of Anégakōji Kintomo
• Chapter 10: Lord Yōdō’s Crackdown
• Chapter 11: In Prison (1)
• Chapter 12: The Failed Rebellions of Chōshū and Mito
• Chapter 13: In Prison (2)
• Chapter 14: The Stoicism of a Samurai: Takéchi Hanpeita’s Death

Part III: The Assassination of Sakamoto Ryōma

• Chapter 15: Ryōma’s Greatest Achievements
• Chapter 16: The Motives
• Chapter 17: Unsolved Mystery—To a Certain Extent
• Chapter 18: The Assassins
• Chapter 19: The Attack
• Chapter 20: The Aftermath
• Chapter 21: Civil War
• Chapter 22: “The Man Who Killed Sakamoto Ryōma”

Epilogue: The Second Existential Crisis of the Samurai Class

Glossary

Table of Era Names

Abbreviations of Sources Cited

Bibliography

Notes

Index

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