Site of the Former Residence of a Junior Feudal Retainer
Built in 1866 to house remnants of the Mito Tengu Party who had been placed under the custody of the Obama Domain. Only the surrounding stone walls remain today.
On November 1, 1864, the Mito Tengu Party raised their banner at Mount Tsukuba in Hitachi Province to realize the Sonno Joi ideal. They marched toward Kyoto but were pursued by shogunate forces and surrendered at Tsuruga in Echizen Province. In 1865, their leader, Takeda Kōunsai, and 352 others were sentenced to death. Takeda Kinjirō and 110 others, sentenced to exile on remote islands, were placed under the custody of the Obama Domain and confined in Tsuruga. They were pardoned the following year. The Obama Domain treated them as quasi-samurai and relocated them to Sakaki. In 1868, ordered by the Imperial Court to return to the Mito Domain, they left Sakaki.
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