Kawaji Seimo, who committed suicide with a pistol at the end - the life of a shogunate vassal who worked hard to protect Japan from Russia

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Kawaji Seimo, who committed suicide with a pistol at the end - the life of a shogunate vassal who worked hard to protect Japan from Russia

On March 15, 1868 (Keio 4), as the Western Army was about to launch a full-scale attack on Edo Castle, an elderly Shogunate official took his own life with a pistol. He died without knowing that the castle had been surrendered without bloodshed. Although Edo Castle was surrendered without bloodshed, not everyone lost their lives. Not only the Shogitai who died in the Battle of Ueno, but also the man who sacrificed himself for the Tokugawa Shogun…