Shinsengumi : The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
Availability:
Out of stock
230pp. Lightly illustrated. Indexed. Blue publisher's cloth boards (bright, sharp, strong). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original pictorial dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). Account of the Meiji Revolution in the 1860s, which toppled the Tokugawa Shogunate which had ruled Japan for over two and half centuries. Begins with the violent reaction of the Samuri to the Shogun's decision in the 1850s to isolate westerners.
