Following Saburōsuke: The Other Last Samurai — Chapter 57
三郎助を追う 〜もうひとりのラストサムライ〜 第57回 文・写真 藤野浩章
In April 1863 in Kyoto, Shogun Iemochi was pressured into promising to carry out expulsion of foreigners on May 10.
In Bunkyū 3 (1863), Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, who had traveled to Kyoto for the first time in 229 years, was forced under intense pressure to promise that the shogunate would implement jōi, the expulsion of foreigners, on May 10. The piece places this promise in the context of growing anti-foreign sentiment, noting incidents such as the Namamugi Affair involving the British. The author, Hiroaki Fujino, continues his serialized account following a figure named Saburōsuke amid the turbulent Bakumatsu politics and foreign confrontations.