Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Ki-45 Kai Special Attack of 4th Sentai led by 2nd Lt. Misoaburo Yamamoto YARE

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

G3M2 Genzan Ku 1941 courtesy of the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Choshi Joshi Teishintai with Tachikawa Ki-36 1944 courtesy of the net.

 

[Wurger]

Choshi Joshi Teishintai with Tachikawa Ki-36 1944 courtesy of the net. View attachment 774261

Actually not the Tachikawa Ki-36 but the Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia.

 

[Shinpachi]

IJA Oki branch unit crosses over the Thai-Burma border for Tavoy as the advance troop in January 1942.

In Tavoy

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 7・太平洋戦争 1)(Oct.1978)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

Actually not the Tachikawa Ki-36 but the Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia.

Right!

 

[Viking1066]

IJA Mitsubishi Ki-51 6th Sekichotai Philippines courtesy of the net.

 

[Shinpachi]

On December 27, 1941, prior to Japanese invasion into Burma, one of IJA's intelligence teams "Minami Unit" organized the Burmese Voluntary Army with 200 local members recruited. The number increased to 4,860 by February 1942.

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 7・太平洋戦争 1)(Oct.1978)

 

[Frog]

 

[Shinpachi]

It's a very historic place for the Japanese people.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860)

The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties with other Western countries. The Harris Treaty was signed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in defiance of Emperor Kōmei's instructions not to sign the treaty, thus branding the Shogunate as having betrayed the emperor and by extension, the country. From 1859, the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Yokohama became open to foreign traders as a consequence of the treaties.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Shinpachi]

Minister's guards were unable to protect him due to their expensive swords.
As it was a snowy day, the guards placed their swords in a cloth case in fear of getting wet.
They had been killed instantly before taking them out. A precious lesson that modern Japanese may forget.

桜田門外の変 - 耳（ミミ）とチャッピの布団：楽天ブログ

桜田門外の変は、ご存じの通り安政７年（１８６０年）３月に江戸城桜田門外で水戸藩の脱藩者と薩摩藩士が大老井伊直弼を暗殺した事件ですね。 そこまではよく知られているけど、詳細をよく知らなかったのですが、大

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[SaparotRob]

View: https://youtu.be/Z8kPxkiG1lc

 

[Viking1066]

Zuikaku's A6M2 pilots December 1941 SOPI

 

[Zippythehog]

It's a very historic place for the Japanese people.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860)

The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties with other Western countries. The Harris Treaty was signed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in defiance of Emperor Kōmei's instructions not to sign the treaty, thus branding the Shogunate as having betrayed the emperor and by extension, the country. From 1859, the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Yokohama became open to foreign traders as a consequence of the treaties.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Do I correctly understand that these events contributed rationale for dissolving the Shogunate and eventually the beginning of the Meiji period?

 

[Shinpachi]

Do I correctly understand that these events contributed rationale for dissolving the Shogunate and eventually the beginning of the Meiji period?

Great insight, Zippythehog
Yes, the shogunate ignored the emperor though it was not necessarily unusual but this had given the opposition group the justice to take power.

 

[Viking1066]

Swordfish 'L9781' of No.810 Squadron over HMS Ark Royal 1939 WID

 

[Viking1066]

Shokakus deck crews and B5N2s PH raid December 1941 AKAGO

 

[Viking1066]

Sea Hurricane Mk Ibs of No.800 and 880 Squadrons aboard HMS Indomitable at Freetown participating in Operation Pedestal LODE

Nakajima B5N2 type 97 model 3 'VI-324' IJN Kaga early 1941 Japan BURAO