A submission to the September 2011 J-Festa with the theme “Events in Japan“.

The Namamugi Incident was a samurai assault on foreign nationals in Japan on September 14, 1862, which resulted in the bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863, during the Late Tokugawa shogunate. It started out with a samurai attack on British nationals, ended up with the British engaging war on a province of Japan and has an interesting side piece on how the Japanese national flag was adopted.

Body of Charles Richardson, 1862

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Caption This!

“We’d rather light than fight!” or “I’d walk a mile across feudal Japan for a Camel.”

Apparently a behind the scenes pic of Toshiro Mifune in Sanjuro.