Boshin War
January 27, 1868 – June 27, 1869 · Edo (Tokyo) and northern Japan
Result Imperial victory
Japanese civil war of 1868-1869 between the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and an imperial coalition of western samurai domains, chiefly Choshu, Satsuma and Tosa, acting in the name of Emperor Meiji. The smaller but modernized imperial faction won a series of battles culminating in the surrender of Edo; the last Tokugawa holdouts, the Republic of Ezo in Hokkaido, fell at Hakodate. About 8,200 of 69,000 mobilized men were killed, and the war completed the military phase of the Meiji Restoration.
Imperial Court
Tokugawa shogunate
Other
Emperor Meiji
belligerent leader
Kuroda Kiyotaka
belligerent leader
Yamagata Aritomo
belligerent leader
Saigō Takamori
Satsuma commander, Led imperial forces against the shogunate and negotiated the surrender of Edo
Prince Komatsu Akihito
belligerent leader
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito
belligerent leader
Battles and events 11
- Battle of Awa January 28, 1868 · Shogunate victory
- Battle of Toba–Fushimi January 31, 1868 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma March 29, 1868 · Imperial victory
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Battle of Hokuetsu March 29, 1868 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Hatchōoki August 10, 1868 · Northern Alliance victory
- Fall of Edo May 3, 1868
- Battle of Utsunomiya Castle May 10–14, 1868 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Ueno July 4, 1868 · Imperial victory
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Battle of Aizu October 1868 – November 1868 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Bonari Pass October 6, 1868 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Noheji November 7, 1868 · Northern Alliance victory
- Battle of Noheji November 7, 1868 · Northern Alliance victory
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Battle of Hakodate December 4, 1868 – June 27, 1869 · Imperial victory
- Naval Battle of Hakodate May 4–10, 1869 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Miyako Bay May 6, 1869 · Imperial victory
- Battle of Miyako Bay May 6, 1869 · Imperial victory
Before and after
- Followed from
- Meiji Restoration January 3, 1868
