Another rebellion had erupted in eastern Japan…

Another rebellion had erupted in eastern Japan against the power of the Shogunate, the Mito rebellion, on May 2, 1864.

This rebellion also is in the name of the Sonnō Jōi, the expulsion of the Western "barbarians" and the return to Imperial rule.

The Shogunate had managed to send an army to quell the revolt in June.

As the conflict escalated, the shogunate force of sixty-seven hundred had been defeated by two thousand insurgents on October 1864 at Nakaminato.

Several shogunal defeats had followed.

The insurgents had been weakened, however, their numbers dwindling to about one thousand.

By December 1864, they had faced a new force under Tokugawa Yoshinobu (himself born in Mito) numbering over ten thousand, which ultimately forces them to surrender on January 14, 1865.

The uprising has resulted in thirteen hundred dead on the rebels' side, which suffers vicious repression, including three hundred and fifty-three executions and approximately one hundred who die in captivity.