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Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS École Française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO CO-HOSTED BY The Boshin War (1868-69) fought between the Tokugawa Shogunate and an alliance of domains rallying around the Japanese emperor was a major turning point in Japanese history and heralded in the Meiji era. Utilizing the British consular reports from Hakodate as well as several other eyewitness accounts, this talk will offer an insight into the activities and opinions of foreign traders and consuls during this crucial period. Located in the far north of the Jap- anese realm, the treaty port of Hakodate switched hands several times between the Shogunate and Imperial forces, and in the final phase of the Boshin War Hakodate was occupied for seven months by the so-called “Ezo Republic” which offered the final resistance to the Meiji regime. The sources provide on-the-ground insight into the reality of the shifting conflict, foreign diplomacy, and the activities of foreign traders who sold weapons and conveyed troops during this tumultuous period. In the talk eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Hakodate, a naval and land battle fought between strikingly modern forces which drew the curtain on the Boshin War will be presented. The view from Hakodate allows us to revise several aspects of the popular images of both the Tokugawa and Meiji regimes. Steven Ivings is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. After completing his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2014 he worked at Heidelberg University as an assistant professor in cultural economic history before joining Kyoto University in 2017. He is a socio-economic historian who has published on aspects of colonial and postcolonial migration in the Northeast Asia, and the history of trade and economic development in Hokkaido and Karafuto (now Sakhalin). Tuesday, December 10th, 18:00h Between the Meiji Restoration and Ezo Republic The Boshin War Viewed from Hakodate Steven Ivings SPEAKER EFEO | Tel. 075-701-0882 E-mail [email protected] ISEAS | Tel. 075-703-3015 E-mail [email protected] École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 29 Betto-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan かに道楽 SHIRAKAWA ST HIGASHI-OJI ST KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 204 バス停北白川校前 Kitashirakawako-mae KANIDORAKU KYOTO CITY BUS 5, 17, 32, 100, 102, 203, 204 バス停銀閣寺道 Ginkakuji-michi 京都大学 KYOTO UNIVERSITY 白川通東大路通IMADEGAWA ST 今出川通 MIKAGE ST 御蔭通東アジア人文情報学研究センター INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES CHION-JI TEMPLE 知恩寺 SHIGAGOEMICHI ST 志賀越道

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Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS

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The Boshin War (1868-69) fought between the Tokugawa Shogunate and an alliance of domains rallying around the Japanese emperor was a major turning point in Japanese history and heralded in the Meiji era. Utilizing the British consular reports from Hakodate as well as several other eyewitness ac-counts, this talk will o�er an insight into the activities and opinions of foreign traders and consuls during this crucial period. Located in the far north of the Jap-anese realm, the treaty port of Hakodate switched hands several times between the Shogunate and Imperial forces, and in the �nal phase of the Boshin War Hakodate was occupied for seven months by the so-called “Ezo Republic” which o�ered the �nal resistance to the Meiji regime. The sources provide on-the-ground insight into the reality of the shifting con�ict, foreign diplomacy, and the activities of foreign traders who sold weapons and conveyed troops during this tumultuous period. In the talk eye-witness accounts of the Battle of Hakodate, a naval and land battle fought between strikingly modern forces which drew the curtain on the Boshin War will be presented. The view from Hakodate allows us to revise several aspects of the popular images of both the Tokugawa and Meiji regimes.

Steven Ivings is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. After completing his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2014 he worked at Heidelberg University as an assistant professor in cultural economic history before joining Kyoto University in 2017. He is a socio-economic historian who has published on aspects of colonial and postcolonial migration in the Northeast Asia, and the history of trade and economic development in Hokkaido and Karafuto (now Sakhalin).

Tuesday, December 10th, 18:00h

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Restorationand Ezo

RepublicThe Boshin War

Viewedfrom Hakodate

Steven Ivings SPEAKER

EFEO | Tel. 075-701-0882 E-mail [email protected] | Tel. 075-703-3015 E-mail [email protected]

École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 29 Betto-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan

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