List of Illustrations and Maps

Author’s Note

Introduction

Prologue

Book 1: The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853-1868)

Part I: The Outsider

• Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu
• Chapter 2: The Outsider
• Chapter 3: The Nagasaki Naval Academy
• Chapter 4: The Rise of Ii Naosuké
• Chapter 5: The Transpacific Voyage—“. .  . for the glory of the Japanese navy”
• Chapter 6: Katsu Kaishu’s San Francisco Experience
• Chapter 7: The Onset of the Age of Terror

Part II: The Outsider Steps In

• Chapter 8: A Brief Discussion on Bushido
• Chapter 9: “The Group of Four”
• Chapter 10: Satsuma Han
• Chapter 11: The Commissioner and the Outlaw
• Chapter 12: Choshu’s Yoshida Shoin and Takasugi Shinsaku
• Chapter 13: “Went up to the castle”
• Chapter 14: Choshu on the Brink
• Chapter 15: “. . . along came Saigo”

Part III: The Outsider Steps Back

• Chapter 16: “unexpected folly”
• Chapter 17: The Road to Revolution: The Rise of Takasugi Shinsaku’s Rebel Army
• Chapter 18: “rumors of tyranny”: The Bakufu Gone Awry
• Chapter 19: The Satsuma-Choshu Alliance
• Chapter 20: “The Bakufu . . . must willingly fall”
• Chapter 21: The Peace Talks with Choshu
• Chapter 22: The Shogun, the Emperor, and the Opposition at Court
• Chapter 23: Yoshinobu Scores a Victory
• Chapter 24: Gathering Forces in the “Great Drama”
• Chapter 25: The Restoration of Imperial Rule and the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu

Book 2: The Rise of Imperial Japan (1868-1878)

Part IV: The Outsider Takes Control

• Chapter 26: Civil War
• Chapter 27: Yoshinobu Surrenders
• Chapter 28: Kaishu vs. Saigo (1): The Challenge
• Chapter 29: Kaishu vs. Saigo (2): The Messenger
• Chapter 30: Kaishu vs. Saigo (3): The Talks
• Chapter 31: The Surrender of Edo Castle

Part V: The Outsider and the Imperial Government

• Chapter 32: “an abomination”
• Chapter 33: The End of the Boshin War and the Onset of the Meiji Era
• Chapter 34: Saigo and the Meiji Government (1): The Return
• Chapter 35: Saigo and the Meiji Government (2): The Departure
• Chapter 36: The Saga Rebellion, the Taiwan Expedition, the Problem with China, and Katsu Kaishu’s Resignation from the Meiji Government
• Chapter 37: Saigo and the Meiji Government (3): The Rebellion

Epilogue: The Shogun’s Last Samurai

Appendix: On the Value of Katsu Kaishu’s Histories, Biographies, and Memoirs

Notes

Table of Era Names

Main Characters and Feudal Domains

Glossary of Japanese Terms

Sources from Katsu Kaishu

Abbreviations of Sources Cited

Bibliography

Index