Person1815 – 1860
Ii Naosuke
Chief minister (tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate who signed the 1858 US–Japan treaty without imperial sanction, purged his opponents and was assassinated
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The Tokugawa shogunate signed a commercial treaty with the United States without the emperor’s consent. Granting consular jurisdiction and denying Japan tariff autonomy, the unequal treaty fuelled the "revere the emperor, expel the barbarians" movement and the fall of the shogunate.
Themes this person appears in
- The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901
From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways