The , also called the Kantō Insurrection or the , was a

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that occurred in the area of

Mito Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Hitachi Province in modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture.uprising Rebellion is an uprising that resists and is organized against one's government. A rebel is a person who engages in a rebellion. A rebel group is a consciously coordinated group that seeks to gain political control over an entire state or a ...

and terrorist actions against the central power of the

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in favour of the ''

sonnō jōi was a '' yojijukugo'' (four-character compound) phrase used as the rallying cry and slogan of a political movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, during the Bakumatsu period. Based on Neo-Confucianism and Japanese nativism, the movement sou ...

'' ("Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians") movement.

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A shogunal pacification force was sent to Mount Tsukuba on 17 June 1864, consisting of 700 Mito soldiers led by Ichikawa, with 3 to 5 cannons and at least 200 firearms, as well as a

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force of 3,000 men with over 600 firearms and several cannons. As the conflict escalated, on 10 October 1864 at Nakaminato, the shogunate force of 6,700 was defeated by 2,000 insurgents, and several shogunal defeats followed. The insurgents were weakening, however, dwindling to about 1,000. By December 1864 they faced a new force under

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(himself born in Mito) numbering over 10,000, which ultimately forced them to surrender. The uprising resulted in 1,300 dead on the rebels' side, which suffered vicious repression, including 353 executions and approximately 100 who died in captivity.Totman, p.120

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* Mito and Hikone had been hostile since the Sakurada Gate incident in 1860. Mito and Hikone were reconciled by Tsuruga, the death place of Tengutō members, after 110 years of the incident. * Nuclear dense zones of Japan are concentrated near Mito and near Tsuruga, these two places are related by the Tengutō rebellion. Especially, Jōyō ( Ōarai, a neighbor of Mito) and Monju (Tsuruga) are two

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s in Japan.

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* Totman, Conrad. (1980). ''The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868'' University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, {{Authority control 1864 in Japan 1865 in Japan 19th-century rebellions Bakumatsu Civil wars in Japan Conflicts in 1864 Conflicts in 1865 History of Fukui Prefecture Mito Domain Rebellions in Japan

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