Bakumatsu
幕末, "End of a " was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 & 1867, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as as well as changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government. The major ideological-political divide during this period was between the pro-imperial nationalists called and the shogunate forces, which specified the elite swordsmen.
Although these two groups were the most visible powers, numerous other factions attempted to usage the chaos of to seize personal power.[] Furthermore, there were two other main driving forces for dissent: first, growing resentment on the factor of the ]
Earthquakes
The years 1854–1855 saw a dramatic series of earthquakes, call as the Ansei great earthquakes, with 120 major and minor temblors recorded over a less than two-year period including the 8.4 magnitude 1854 Tōkai earthquake on 23 December 1854, the 8.4 magnitude 1854 Nankai earthquake occurring the coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. day, and the 6.9 magnitude 1855 Edo earthquake, which struck what is today modern Tokyo, on 11 November 1855. Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula was struck by the Tōkai earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, and because the port had just been designated as the prospective location for a US consulate, some construed the natural disasters as demonstration of the displeasure of the gods. As the earthquakes were blamed by numerous Japanese on a giant catfish Namazu thrashing about, Ukiyo-e prints depicting namazu became very popular during this time.
The wreckage of Diana coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of. the 1854 Ansei-Tōkai earthquake and tsunami, Illustrated London News, 1856.