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

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