Table of Contents

Front Matter

Japan Asleep
The Old Yashiki
The Messenger
The Fifth Day of the Eleventh Month
The Council of the Clan
Young Kano Grows Up
Kano's Journey to Yedo
Yokohama in 1859
New Experience
Friendship or Hatred?
Choshiu Yashiki
Sonno Joi!
Plotting
Within the Palace
Underground Rumbling
The Court Aroused
A Conference
Flight
Battle and Defeat
Drilling
Down with Tokugawa
Conclusion
Notes