Following Sabrosuke: The Other Last Samurai — Chapter 57

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 Sabrosuke amid the turbulent Bakumatsu politics and foreign confrontations.