| Two months later, forces of Satsuma, [[Choshu han|Chôshû]], and several other han announced a Restoration of the Monarchy ([[Osei Fukko|Ôsei Fukko]] 王政復古) and the [[Boshin War]] started. Yoshinobu was defeated in the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]] and returned to Edo aboard a naval ship. His re-entry into the city does not appear as a popular spectacle in popular media of the time, though the entrance of [[Emperor Meiji]] into the city does, in a major way.<ref>[[Kurushima Hiroshi]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref> | | Two months later, forces of Satsuma, [[Choshu han|Chôshû]], and several other han announced a Restoration of the Monarchy ([[Osei Fukko|Ôsei Fukko]] 王政復古) and the [[Boshin War]] started. Yoshinobu was defeated in the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]] and returned to Edo aboard a naval ship. His re-entry into the city does not appear as a popular spectacle in popular media of the time, though the entrance of [[Emperor Meiji]] into the city does, in a major way.<ref>[[Kurushima Hiroshi]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref> |
− | When the anti-shogunate forces marched on the city, he decided to surrender, and troops entered the city peacefully on [[1868]]/4/11. Yoshinobu was confined in Mito for a while as an enemy of the Court,<ref>[[Anne Walthall]], "Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 49.</ref> but later settled in [[Sunpu]] (Shizuoka-ken), the city where [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu]] had retired to. In 1897, he moved to Tokyo, He was made duke (Kôshaku 公爵) in 1902. | + | When the anti-shogunate forces marched on the city, he decided to surrender, and troops entered the city peacefully on [[1868]]/4/11. Yoshinobu was confined in Mito for a while as an enemy of the Court. He took up residence there at the old [[han school|domain academy]] just outside the moats of [[Mito castle]].<ref>[[Anne Walthall]], "Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 49, 51.</ref> Later, he settled in [[Sunpu]] (Shizuoka-ken), the city where [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu]] had retired to. In 1897, he moved to Tokyo, He was made duke (''[[kazoku|kôshaku]]'', 公爵) in 1902. |
| Following his death, Yoshinobu was not enshrined and entombed like his predecessors, at either [[Kan'ei-ji]] or [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]], but was instead buried in [[Yanaka Cemetery]], in a still grand but comparatively ordinary burial. | | Following his death, Yoshinobu was not enshrined and entombed like his predecessors, at either [[Kan'ei-ji]] or [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]], but was instead buried in [[Yanaka Cemetery]], in a still grand but comparatively ordinary burial. |