Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Japan Asleep[1]
II.The Old Yashiki[10]
III.The Messenger[21]
IV.The Fifth Day of the Eleventh Month[32]
V.The Council of the Clan[44]
VI.Young Kano Grows Up[55]
VII.Kano’s Journey to Yedo[65]
VIII.Yokohama in 1859[76]
IX.New Experience[88]
X.Friendship or Hatred[97]
XI.Choshiu Yashiki[107]
XII.Sonno Joï![118]
XIII.Plotting[129]
XIV.Within the Palace[141]
XV.Underground Rumbling[151]
XVI.The Court Aroused[161]
XVII.A Conference[171]
XVIII.Flight[184]
XIX.Battle and Defeat[195]
XX.Drilling[206]
XXI.Down With Tokugawa[216]
XXII.Conclusion[226]