During the Bakumatsu period, Shimoda port was opened to American trade under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry and signed on March 31, 1854.

During the Bakumatsu period, Kurihama in southern Miura Peninsula was the location of the first landing of American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his fleet of black ships in 1853, which led eventually to the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened Sagami to foreign visitation and led to the rapid development of Yokohama as a treaty port.

During the Bakumatsu period, Shimoda was chosen by the Tokugawa government as a port to be opened to American trade under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry and signed on March 31, 1854.

In the Bakumatsu or early Meiji period ( c. 1865-8 ), the 25 year-old servant Sokichi was executed by crucifixion for the murder of the son of his employer, a store-owner, during the course of a robbery.

During the turbulent Bakumatsu period, the Shogunate selected Yokosuka as the site for a modern naval base, and hired the French engineer Léonce Verny in 1865 to oversee the development of shipbuilding facilities, beginning with Yokosuka Iron Foundry.

* In the Square game Live-A-Live, there is a mechanic named Gennai who is responsible for the creation of mechanical traps in the Bakumatsu Chapter.

Though for many years a pachinko parlor sat on the grounds of the Ikedaya, with the only remnant being a memorial tablet relating the events that occurred on the site, in 2009 an izakaya named Ikeda-ya opened, designed and decorated with an Ikeda-ya Shinsengumi / Bakumatsu theme.

During the Bakumatsu period, the area offshore Kanazawa was an anchorage for the American black ships under command of Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853 and 1854.

The Yamate Bluff area is famous as having been a major foreigners ' neighborhood in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods.

Since the setting of the chapter is the Bakumatsu era, his presence is an anachronism, but considering the additional presence of Ishikawa Goemon, Yodo-Dono, and Shiro Tokisada Amakusa, it is clear that this section of the game was intentionally designed as a mash-up of popular Japanese history.

is a Japanese political philosophy and a social movement derived from Neo-Confucianism ; it became a political slogan in the 1850s and 1860s in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu, during the Bakumatsu (" End of Bakufu ") period.

In the anime series, Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto, Okita is depicted as an old acquaintace of the protagonist, Akizuki Yōjirō.

In an episode of the anime Ghost Sweeper Mikami, ghost-hunter Mikami Reiko gets inside of a haunted movie about the Bakumatsu and meets Okita, who is depicted as a crazy guy who thinks only of killing people ( obvious pun on his usual portrayal, which also is a foil to the show's rendition of Hijikata.

In addition, he is depicted in the 1999 live-action film Gohatto ( sometimes known as Taboo ), the 2003 Japanese film When the Last Sword Is Drawn, video game series Shinsengumi Gunrou-den ( as the protagonist ), video game series Fu-un Shinsengumi, video game series Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi, and video game Chaos Wars.

In fact, in a 1991 movie, Bakumatsu Jūnjōden ( 幕末純情伝 ), he is portrayed as a boyish woman.

For example, Nagakura is featured in Peacemaker Kurogane ( anime / manga ), Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami ( manga ), Kaze Hikaru ( manga ), Getsumei Seiki ( manga ), 2004 NHK Taiga drama series Shinsengumi !, Shinsengumi Gunrou-den ( video game series ), and Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi ( video game series.

He is also featured in Kaze Hikaru ( manga ), Hakodate Youjin Buraichou Himegami ( manga ), Getsumei Seiki ( manga ) and Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi ( video game series.

At this moment, it is discovered that Kenshin was married to Tomoe in the Bakumatsu but accidentally killed her when trying to rescue her from a group of assassins.

It is the Bakumatsu period in Japan.

As contacts between France and Japan delopped during the Bakumatsu period ( on the military side this is the period of the first French military mission to Japan ), Japan was formed into a unique Vicariate Apostolic from 1866 until 1876.

At the end of the Bakumatsu, he becomes a wandering samurai, now wielding a, a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly curved side of the sword, thus being nearly incapable of killing.

The Late Tokugawa Shogunate ( Bakumatsu ) was the period between 1853 and 1867, during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

File: Thomas Blake Glover. jpg | Merchant Thomas Blake Glover was a British merchant in Bakumatsu and received Japan's second highest order from Emperor Meiji in recognition of his contributions to Japan's industrialization.

The turning point of the Bakumatsu was during the Boshin War and the Battle of Toba-Fushimi when pro-shogunate forces were defeated.

was a term given to four samurai during the Bakumatsu era in Japanese history.

Sarushima was one of the locations fortified with coastal artillery during the Bakumatsu period and was subsequently incorporated into the Tokyo Bay Fortress during the Meiji period.

; was a Bakumatsu and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu.

Viscount was a samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate who fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.

was a Japanese statesman during the Bakumatsu and Meiji period.

was a Japanese military leader and theorist in Bakumatsu period Japan.

* Okada Izō ( 1832 – 1865 ) was a samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period.

* Sakamoto Ryōma ( 1836 – 1867 ) was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period.

A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period.

He was one of the few core members who survived the numerous wars of the Bakumatsu period.

He was a key figure in East Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, particularly in Bakumatsu ( 1853 – 1867 ) and Meiji Era ( 1868 – 1912 ) Japan, and in China after the Boxer Rebellion, 1900-06.

Thomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun ( 6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911 ) was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.

He was the 9th daimyo of the Aizu han and the Military Commissioner of Kyoto during the Bakumatsu period.

Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck ( born Verbeek ) ( 28 January 1830 – 10 May 1898 ) was a Dutch political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.

* January 13 – Kawakami Gensai, a highly skilled swordsman and one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period.

Although these two groups were the most visible powers, many other factions attempted to use the chaos of the Bakumatsu era to seize personal power.

The turning points of the Bakumatsu were the Boshin War and the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, when pro-shogunate forces were defeated.

Although these two groups were the most visible powers, many other factions attempted to use the chaos of Bakumatsu to seize personal power.