武田耕雲斎等の墓 - Tsuruga

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Listen to Shinya Ohwada's commentary I became sad ? After decapitation, it is treated as garbage.

A sad historical site where the Mito Tengu Party trapped six herring warehouses here. One of them has been relocated to "Kaiten Shrine" in Matsumoto-cho, Mito City and has been preserved.

2021. NHK Taiga Drama [Reach Beyond the Blue Sky] The land where the Mito clan Takeda Kounsai and more than 350 comrades were captured and decapitated by the Shogunate. The Mito clan was divided into the Sono faction (Tengu party) and the Morio faction (conservative faction). After Nariaki Tokugawa died of illness, the Joi faction was forced to end its position. Kounsai becomes the leader of the Tengu Party and appeals to the Emperor Sonno. Kounsai was prepared to be executed when he became leader. This graveyard is a prison, a grave where Takeda Kounsai and Shishi sleep, where the remains were buried and filled with earth, and the place where the Tengu Party ended. Later, Kounsai's wife, children, and grandchildren were also beheaded.

Takeda Kounsai played by Kanji Tsuda in the taiga drama "Seiten wo Tsuketsu". There is a statue of Kounsai in front of the tombs of Kounsai. Detailed explanation in the audio guide of Shinya Owada You can hear it.

The blooming plum blossoms are ephemeral, and the scent is very fragrant. The "Tengu Party Rebellion" originated from the power struggle of the Mito Domain, the head temple of the Sonno Joi movement at the end of the Edo period. The origin of the "Tengu Party" is that the hostile forces despised the forces centered on Mito Rebellion Tokugawa Nariaki. It happened two years after Nariaki's death, and the Tengu Party had no place in the Mito territory due to the rebound of the anti-Tengu Party, so to speak, they headed for Kyoto in the form of exiting the Mito Domain. Under the emperor, he tried to make a petition to the shogunate to urge the shogunate to carry out the order to expel barbar. There was Yoshinobu Hitotsubashi in Kyoto. This person, who later became the last shogun, was stationed in Kyoto and was in charge of the shogunate's diplomacy with the imperial court. Yoshinobu is from the Mito Tokugawa family. Nariaki's real child, Takeda Kounsai and others tried to follow Yoshinobu. Kounsai Takeda, the chief retainer of the Mito Domain, and the mastermind was Koshiro Fujita, the son of Toko Fujita, a national scholar. Higashiko was an old man who could be called Nariaki's kaiken. All of them were "Mito-sama's old vassals", and in peacetime they were people with various statuses in feudal society. The military was seemingly imposing. It is reported that there were 200 cavalry warriors, 15 cannons, and a total of more than 1,000 officers. From Mt. Tsukuba to Tsuruga, he marched while fighting against various clan and shogunate forces. The feudal lords on the way were low in fighting spirit and marched to Gifu Unuma without any resistance, but from this point onward, the Hikone feudal clan, who had a grudge against the Mito feudal clan, was pushing out, so it was thought that it would be difficult to pass around Lake Biwa. I went north and entered Echizen Ono, and from there I advanced to the vicinity of Echizen Tsuruga. Yoshinobu himself became the governor-general of the follow-up to Takeda and others, and rejected their plea to Echizen-Shinbo. They surrendered. Initially, it was the Kaga Domain, the forerunner of the revenge army, who accepted the surrender. The Kaga clan housed the Tengu party in three temples, Honshoji, Honmyoji, and Choenji, and treated them politely, like the Great Clan or the Kaga Clan. It is treated according to Bushido, and is truly the Kaga domain. However, when the character is handed over to the Shogunate army, the treatment changes completely. Regarding the treatment of the Tengu Party, which had relied on himself, Yoshinobu quickly returned to Kyoto and entrusted the disposition to a young shogunate, Tanuma Okitaka, who came from Edo. This Tanuma was not happy with the work of the Tengu Party in the eastern country, and rebuked the Kaga Domain Army Chief who had treated him well, and entered the herring warehouse with the Tengu Party as a prisoner. The number of people at that time was 767. The state of this one-party state, which was put into several herring warehouses, was recorded by a person named Akai Denemon, a Kaga feudal lord, who was angry at Tanuma's way of doing things. "There is a light window in the brewery, but I struck a board into it to darken the interior. The floor covering inside is only a little laid. Large and small toilets have tubs in the brewery. I can't stand the odor. I only eat one rice ball and give it only twice a day. It is said. " These treatments were carried out arbitrarily without Tanuma visiting Yoshinobu, but Yoshinobu did not give any particular opinion on the subsequent treatment of the Tengu Party. After that, 353 members of the Tengu Party were beheaded in five days. This place of execution is the place where the graves such as the national historic site Takeda Kounsai are located. It is said to have become a mound. I was scared when I heard the work of pushing it into this herring storehouse with a single lower belt and decapitating it in five days. I don't think there are so many cruel acts in Japanese history. And while I think they were political prisoners, I don't think they were a death penalty. Did you try to overthrow the system? Anyway, when I became an adult, I learned about the Tengu Party incident (I didn't take Japanese history when I was in high school), but I was very shocked. The cold and cruel treatment of this sonno jōi martyr gave a shock to the world. In particular, this procedure had a great impact on the scholars in Tokyo, and Ichizo Okubo (Toshimichi), who was in Kyoto at that time, wrote about this incident as "the curtain, the table of destruction." In other words, it was shown to the full sky that justice and cause had disappeared in the shogunate. After that, the people of the Tengu Party were executed as sinners, but the people of Tsuruga felt pity for this and continued the memorial service. In the Meiji era, the Tengu Party regained its honor as a righteous man. Around the graveyard, there were many trees donated by people from Mito and Ibaraki prefectures. I couldn't find it, but it seems that some of them have planted plum trees in Kairakuen, Mito. Ume is said to relieve the regrets of those who have died.

It is a tomb where members of the Mito Domain Tengu Party, including Takeda Kounsai, were executed and later buried due to the "Tengu Party Rebellion" that occurred in 1865. It was designated as a national historic site on December 28, 1934.