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Bakufu retainer [[Yamaoka Tesshu]] visited [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] in Sunpu to negotiate the terms of capitulation.
Bakufu retainer [[Yamaoka Tesshu]] visited [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] in Sunpu to negotiate the terms of capitulation.
Saigo Takamori entered Edo in 3/13 and had a meeting with Army minister [[Katsu Kaishu]] to negotiate the surrender of the [[Edo castle]].
Saigo Takamori entered Edo in 3/13 and had a meeting with Army minister [[Katsu Kaishu]] to negotiate the surrender of the [[Edo castle]].
As the result, the Imperial troops entered Edo without blood in 4/11.
As the result, the Imperial troops entered Edo without blood in 4/11. That same day, [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] left Edo and headed to Mito.
After taking the castle, Imperial forces moved a number of treasures and [[Tokugawa clan]] ancestral tablets from the Momijiyama archives within the castle grounds to a site in [[Ueno]].<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 40.</ref>
==Battle of Utsunomiya castle==
==Battle of Utsunomiya castle==
