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In a strange twist of fate befit of the times, an anti-Tokugawa, imperial loyalist named [[Kiyokawa Hachiro]] was chosen to recruit [[ronin]] for the newly created Roshigumi. Kiyokawa proceeded to recruit members from the large pool of available sonno joi proponents. Although aware that the ranks of the Roshigumi was filling up with dangerous anti-Tokugawa subversives, some naive officials within the Bakufu hoped that bringing these ronin into the fold would help cement a union between Court and Camp (union of the Imperial Court with the Bakufu) to help maintain the harmony of the national polity during this time of crisis.  Thus with a force of 250 men behind him, on February 8, [[1863]], Kiyokawa and his Roshigumi marched out of Edo as the vanguard of Shogun Iemochi’s procession to Kyoto.

In a strange twist of fate befit of the times, an anti-Tokugawa, imperial loyalist named [[Kiyokawa Hachiro]] was chosen to recruit [[ronin]] for the newly created Roshigumi. Kiyokawa proceeded to recruit members from the large pool of available sonno joi proponents. Although aware that the ranks of the Roshigumi was filling up with dangerous anti-Tokugawa subversives, some naive officials within the Bakufu hoped that bringing these ronin into the fold would help cement a union between Court and Camp (union of the Imperial Court with the Bakufu) to help maintain the harmony of the national polity during this time of crisis.  Thus with a force of 250 men behind him, on February 8, [[1863]], Kiyokawa led the Roshigumi out of Edo as the vanguard of Shogun Iemochi’s procession to Kyoto.

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