The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄, Ansei no taigoku, "Mass Incarceration of Ansei") was a multi-year event during the Bakumatsu period of Japanese history, between...

Treaty of Kanagawa. 1858 (Ansei 5): Beginning of Ansei Purge at the order of Ii Naosuke on behalf of the bakufu. 1860 (Ansei 7): Fire at Edo Castle. March...

decree passed which allowed him to conduct the Ansei Purge. During the rest of 1858 and into 1859 Naosuke purged over 100 officials from the bakufu, the imperial...

Narasaki Kenkichi. Her father was arrested and went to prison during the Ansei Purge. He died after being released from prison when she was 21 years old....

as the Ansei Purge. Tairō Ii Naosuke, who had signed the Harris Treaty and tried to eliminate opposition to Westernization with the Ansei Purge, was himself...

Hashimoto Sanai and Yoshida Shōin, who were executed as a result of the Ansei Purge. Sugita Genpaku, Nakagawa Jun'an, Katsuragawa Hoshū and their colleagues...

Edo. Gensai was present at the Kumamoto residence in Edo during the Ansei Purge. In the aftermath of Ii Naosuke's assassination, when a group of the...

was chosen, and became the 14th shōgun Iemochi. Soon after, during the Ansei Purge, Yoshinobu and others who supported him were placed under house arrest...

these treaties, but the shogunate captured and executed them in the Ansei Purge. In retaliation, Hitotsubashi samurai assassinated Ii Naosuke, the tairō...

p. 11 n3. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tokugawa Nariaki. Ansei purge Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy...