Ikedaya Affair

• Japanese:池田屋事件(Ikedaya Jiken)

The anti-Bakufu powers were evicted from Kyoto after the Political change on August 18(1863) but they just went to underground. The Shinsengumi investigators Yamazaki Susumu, Shimada Kai located a merchant Masuya Kiemon was actually Omi Goshi Furutaka Shuntaro and he was cooperating with Choshu. 1864/6/5 morning, Takeda Kanryusai and several Shinsengumi members raided Masuya and found arms and armors and letters from Chpshu samurai. Furutaka was taken to Shinsengumi headquarter fro questioning.

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